Absolutely horrific.

@pamelacolloff.bsky.social in @postopinions.bsky.social: "Jailhouse informant testimony... has contributed to many wrongful convictions and has helped send innocent people to death row." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Just signed this petition to support clemency for Ernest Suggs, an innocent man on Florida's death row. The victim's own daughter believes he didn't do it. Add your name here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fl... @uscedp.bsky.social @fadp.bsky.social

Kansas faith leaders urge governor to grant clemency requests from people sentenced to death | via @bayaburgess.bsky.social #ksleg

The daughter of a murder victim is urging Florida not to execute the man convicted of her mom's killing—because she believes he's innocent. Powerful op-ed by Laura Johnson in @sun-sentinel.com → www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/07/13/a...

Our Executive Director Laura Porter shared with @indepthwithdeon.bsky.social : "the state having the power to kill is a very, very scary thing because it can expand, because it can be used unfairly, because the bias can impact decisions, because human beings are fallible."

“I’m hoping the governor will pause executions,” Executive Director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty Laura Porter said. “As we are seeing this across the country with Republicans recognizing that there are problems with the death penalty.” www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...

New in The Tennessean from GOP Lawmaker: Tennessee must stop executions until TDOC proves it’s ready. A failed execution exposed deep problems inside TDOC. Tennesseans deserve answers before another attempt. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Just In: Tennessee Department of Correction refuses to say whether doctor in May’s botched execution attempt will conduct August execution of #DarrellHines. Attorneys renew reprieve request to Gov. Lee amid mounting concerns about execution problems: tinyurl.com/bddv9mht

Read this incredible article by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social  in @nytimes.com  about the record-breaking number of death row executions in Florida. #EndTheDeathPenalty

There are many issues with lethal injection as an execution method. Brittany Brown of @mlk50.com reports: -Lethal injection is most likely to cause botched executions -Corrections does not disclose how it obtains and stores the drugs or name medical personnel Read more: mlk50.com/2026/07/02/l...

“‘I’m hoping the governor will pause executions,’ Executive Director of the (@uscedp.bsky.social) U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty Laura Porter said. ‘As we are seeing this across the country with Republicans recognizing that there are problems with the death penalty.’”

Just in from Senior Reporter Sam Stockard: In a demand for “full transparency and accountability” from the Department of Correction, eight GOP senators sent a letter Monday to Gov. Bill Lee requesting that he initiate a review of the botched execution of Tony Von Carruthers on May 21.

New op-ed by Tiara Cooper of @legaldefensefund.bsky.social on racial bias in Texas's death penalty system: "We can no longer pretend not to notice when the evidence is so clear." Read more: texasmetronews.com/123190/what-...

Just In: Governor Lee asked to reprieve Aug. 13 scheduled execution of #DarrellHines due to recent botched execution attempt and Hines' debilitated condition after strokes. Read more here: tinyurl.com/ycjxduxw

LISTEN to the leader of the @uscedp.bsky.social explain why America is moving away from the death penalty on the Hard Knox with Amanda Knox podcast...

Tony Carruthers’ family says he is struggling to walk, cannot use his right hand and is not communicating as he did before the botched lethal injection attempt on May 21. mlk50.com/2026/06/17/b...

"But from noose to needle to nitrogen, our constant search for a more acceptable way to kill is a story of failure, not moral progress." www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/ju...

“Governor DeWine’s evolution on the death penalty is exactly what we’ve seen in communities across Ohio from MAGA Republicans, Democrats and Independents."—Kevin Werner of Ohioans to Stop Executions www.newsweek.com/ohio-governo...

This morning, Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio held a press conference to explain why as a former prosecutor and a Republican he has *changed his mind on the death penalty* and is now urging Ohio to end the death penalty once and for all! His full remarks: ohiochannel.org/programs/gov...

From @texastribune.org ahead of Thursday’s #SCOTUS conference: #CharlesFlores asks Supreme Court to grant appeal in “hypnotized witness” TX death penalty innocence case www.texastribune.org/2026/06/10/t...

📣 California has the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere. Newsom has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the face of the death penalty in California and the entire country. ▶️ Sign this petition to urge Newsom to commute all CA death sentences: actionnetwork.org/petitions/i-...

#OTD in 1919, Congress passed the 19th Amendment. White women gained the right to vote, but Black women continued facing racist barriers and intimidation until the Voting Rights of 1965. Today those barriers are trying to be raised again as the Voting Rights Act is actively being gutted.

The death penalty does not keep us safe. Email Congress to support the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act. This page will fill in your senators and congresspeople and give you the option of using their letter. Hope you will! @uscedp.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/end-...

Alabama plans to execute Jeffrey on June 11 even though the jury voted for life without parole—all because a judge overrode their judgment. A former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court is urging Gov. Ivey to honor the jury's sentence. Read the full op-ed: yellowhammernews.com/drayton-nabe...

How many botched-up executions does it take? How much accumulated data showing that killing criminals does not work to reduce murders? The death penalty does not keep us safe. Email Congress to support the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act! @uscedp.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/end-...

The death penalty does not keep us safe. Email Congress to support the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act! @uscedp.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/end-...

The California Supreme Court has reversed the death sentence of Anthony George Bankston and agreed that prosecutors used racially biased language during closing arguments. www.courthousenews.com/california-s...

🕯️With human rights under threat around the world, millions of people continue to fight against the death penalty each year in a powerful demonstration of our shared humanity. As executing countries become ever more isolated, many countries are choosing to listen.

There’s never an acceptable form of state-sponsored killing—a fact that’s especially true in the U.S., where the history of the death penalty is deeply intertwined with the lynching of Black Americans. We must abolish the death penalty in its entirety. From @uscedp.bsky.social’s Furonda Brasfield:

“The state of Tennessee hired a leader with a well-documented history of problematic executions," said Laura Porter, leader of the @uscedp.bsky.social

The Trump-Blanche Justice Department announced last month it’s bringing back firing squads last month. A total step backwards. I just introduced a bill to ban the federal death penalty once and for all.

Today, I’m reintroducing my Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act with @durbin.senate.gov to get the federal government out of the business of executing its own citizens & save the lives of the people failed by our criminal legal system—like Tony Carruthers.

New in @nature.com on the science of wrongful eyewitness identification and false memories featuring the “hypnotized witness” innocence case of #CharlesFlores: Memory on trial: the new science of when to trust eyewitness testimony www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"There’s no acceptable way to practice a form of state killing that, for Black Americans especially, has long been intertwined with terror." Read this powerful piece on the urgency of death penalty abolition by our Director of Leadership Development, Furonda Brasfield otherwords.org/theres-no-mo...

"...from noose to needle to nitrogen, our constant search for a more acceptable way to kill is a story of failure..." said Furonda Brasfield of the @uscedp.bsky.social

“Tennessee has effectively made the case against the death penalty,” said Laura Porter, the executive director of the @uscedp.bsky.social Read more in @newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

From crime survivor Jennifer Thompson @washingtonpost.com on “hypnotized witness” #CharlesFlores TX death penalty case. #SCOTUS “has the power to intervene & ensure an innocent man is not executed based on an unreliable identification.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Tennessee is currently torturing a man who maintains his innocence in the name of justice. The state's executioners are trying to continue the execution, despite being unable to find an IV line for the lethal drugs. The state must stop this barbaric, botched execution NOW.

🧵 92% of the death sentences sought by Tarrant County prosecutors since 2012 have been against racial and ethnic minorities, even though 40% of Tarrant County’s population is white, according to a new report. thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/21/t...

From @tndeathpenalty.bsky.social - call TN Gov. Lee at 615-741-2001 to change his mind and allow forensic testing for Tony Carruthers. Tony is scheduled for execution tomorrow despite the lack of any physical evidence tying him to the crime.

Executions nearly doubled in the U.S. last year, and soared abroad www.npr.org/2026/05/17/n...

@nbcnews.com investigates the hypnotized witness case of #CharlesFlores. TX banned hypnosis in criminal cases but it was used to send Charles Flores to death row despite his innocence. Watch here: www.nbcnews.com/video/testim...

As promised, here's the news about Glossip being granted bond this morning @lilianasegura.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/05/14/r...

🚨BREAKING: After three decades behind bars and 9 execution dates, Richard Glossip has been granted bond by an Oklahoma County judge, setting him up for release in the days to come. Bond set at $500k. Story with @jordansmith.bsky.social to come @theintercept.com

📣Folks in/near Nashville: There will be a rally and petition delivery for Tony Carruthers on Monday! Come through if you can.

🚨Tony Carruthers could be innocent but faces execution on May 21 in TN. Fingerprints & DNA from the crime scene don't match him. Another person confessed and named a different suspect, but TN won't compare the evidence. Sign to oppose Tony's execution: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

📢 less than 10 days to get this execution stopped. Please spread the word! Governor Lee needs to hear from all of us that he can push pause.

Thank you @star-telegram.com for covering our new report on race and the death penalty in Tarrant County. #EndTheDeathPenalty www.star-telegram.com/news/politic...

On Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Day, we honor the lives of Indigenous women and girls whose lives were taken too soon. We must protect Indigenous communities, who continue to face systemic violence. That means supporting Indigenous organizations and advocating for change.