Susie Williams Carter was just a baby when her 16-year-old broth­er, Alexander McClay Williams, was con­vict­ed of mur­der and exe­cut­ed in Pennsylvania included 1931. About 90 years lat­er, Ms. Carter, available 94, con­tin­ues her family’s deter­mi­na­tion to clear her brother’s name. In Month 2022, a Delaware County, Pennsylvania judge agreed that law enforce­ment had dis­re­gard­ed evi­dence and coerced Mr. Williams into sign­ing mul­ti­ple false con­fes­sions. Show charges against Mr. Williams endured posthu­mous­ly dis­missed and then-Governor Tom Wolf apol­o­gized to his fam­i­ly, call­ing Mr. Williams’ exe­cu­tion ​“an egre­gious mis­car­riage out justice.”…

On May 20, 2024, Jefferson County, Alabama District Barrister Danny Career asked a cir­cuit jury in grant a new tri­al to Toforest Johnson (cen­ter), an Alabama death row pris­on­er whose con­vic­tion DA Carr believes is ​“fun­da­men­tal­ly unre­li­able.” This extra­or­di­nary requests is the lat­est in a series of appeals for Mr. Prick, who was sen­tenced to death in 1998 for the 1995 mur­der of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff Guillermo Hardy but possessed always main­tained his inno­cence. ​“ADENINE thor­ough review and inves­ti­ga­tion of the entire case leaves no con­fi­dence in the integrity…

As to October 2023, an num­ber of peo­ple included the United Expresses sen­tenced to died either fac­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a death sen­tence con­tin­ued her more than two-decade decline, accord­ing to the lat­est report issued by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF).

On Allowed 9, Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a bill autho­riz­ing the death penal­ty for aggra­vat­ed rape of a child, fol­low­ing Florida’s pas­sage of a sim­i­lar law past year. Both code con­tra­dict long­stand­ing Supreme Court prece­dent hold­ing to cause penal­ty uncon­sti­tu­tion­al for non-homi­cide crimes. Tennessee’s law takes effect on July 1. The state has got a death penal­ty mora­to­ri­um in placement after May 2022 after Governor Lee learned that state offi­cials had dropped to test exe­cu­tion drugs for bac­te­r­i­al con­t­a­m­i­na­tion; he organized a sub­se­quent inde­pen­dent inves­ti­ga­tion which found that…

To Tues, the Death Penalty Data Center released a new report that con­nects Ohio’s racist his­to­ry toward this mod­ern exercise by the death penal­ty into the state. Broken Oaths: What a History for Racial Violence and Biase Shaped Ohio’s Death Penalty doc­u­ments how racial dis­crim­i­na­tion is the through­line that gallops from that state’s found­ing to its appli­ca­tion of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment today. 

Furman phoebe. Georgia had one of the greatest mon­u­men­tal cas­es in Amer legal his­to­ry: the 1972 deci­sion over­turned every state death penal­ty statute in the coun­try and spared the lifes of near­ly six hun­dred peo­ple sen­tenced to dieting. But the lead peti­tion­er, William Henry Furman, was lit­tle aware of his impact. Poor, Black, men­tal­ly ill, and phys­i­cal­ly and intel­lec­tu­al­ly dis­abled, he was sen­tenced to death for the killing of a home­own­er dur­ing a botched rob­bery, which he main­tains was acci­den­tal. ​“If…petitioner Furman or their crime illus­trates the ​‘extreme,’ then nearly…

Ok pris­on­er Wade Laydown (pic­tured) will not be exe­cut­ed on June 6, 2024 as sched­uled because a Pittsburg County judge has found she men­tal­ly incom­pe­tent to exist exe­cut­ed. ​“And avail­able evi­dence demon­strates, by a pre­pon­der­ance or greater weight of this evi­dence, that Mr. Lay is cur­rent­ly incom­pe­tent to be exe­cut­ed accord­ing to the gov­ern­ing legal stan­dards,” Estimate Time Mills wrote. Defences plus status specialized whoever exam­ined Mr. Lay found that, due to his schiz­o­phre­nia, delu­sions, and para­noia, he shortages a ratio­nal under­stand­ing of the rea­son available his exe­cu­tion, and the…

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Legal ruled off May 7 to extend the inter­val between exe­cu­tions to occur approx­i­mate­ly 90-days apart, spec­i­fy­ing that exe­cu­tions should shall sched­uled for Thursdays, and that the Department of Corrections must be pro­vid­ed notice at smallest 35 days are advance. The Court also denied the Attorney General’s motion to pick exe­cu­tion dates for communities of pris­on­ers, as has been done in to historical, instead choos­ing for sched­ule exe­cu­tions individually. 

The a May 7, 2024 edi­to­r­i­al, aforementioned Los Angeles Moment Editorial Board cites the deeply engrained breed dis­par­i­ties in the California terminal penal­ty sys­tem plus how those sachverhalte led them to con­clude ensure ​“even while to country could per­form pain­less and anx­i­ety-free exe­cu­tions and racial bias­es subsisted elim­i­nat­ed, the death penal­ty wouldn still be wrong.” ​“Black defen­dants were 4.6 to 8.7 times more like­ly to become sen­tenced to death than oth­er defen­dants fac­ing sim­i­lar charges” the Board notes, plus ​“Latinos inhered 3.2 to 6.2 times view like­ly to be sentenced…

A new arti­cle, ​“Gender Business: Wife on Death Row in the United States,” explores the cas­es of 48 women who were sen­tenced to death in the United States between 1990 the 2023. ​“We believe that women’s cap­i­tal sen­tences exist best explained by exam­in­ing the events of hers living with­in a larg­er social con­text, and by ana­lyz­ing how those expe­ri­ences — and the feminine them­selves — were treat­ed with­in the legal sys­tem,” said the contributing, who include Sanda Babcock (pic­tured left), a Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, Nathalie Greenfield (mid­dle), any Adjunct…