Monday, June 28, 2010

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by the Abolitionist Action Committee WHEN: June 29 and June 30 from 8:30 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. July 1 and 2 - around the clock, 24 hour pres...

US SC Allows Defendant to Challenge 2nd DeathSentence/ More on Troy Davis Case

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Clarence Thomas, US Supreme Court (Photo credit goes to Death Penalty Info Center) Find the following and much more on the latest News and S...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Death-row exonorees fight death penalty

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“We are victims. ... We have pain,” said death-row exoneree Shabaka WaQlimi, also known as Joseph Green Brown, prior to speaking at an event...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Horrific Conditions In Los Angeles County Jail (Specific Changes Recommended)

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By Stephen Lendman 20 June, 2010 Countercurrents.org In July 2008, the Southern California ACLU released a "Report on Mental Health Iss...

Forgiving my daughter's killer

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Guest post by Linda L White in The Washington Post One of the two 15-year-old boys who killed my 26-year-old daughter Cathy was released fro...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Day of Action for Innocence and Justice Wednesday, June 23

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The 254 wrongful convictions overturned through DNA testing have exposed serious flaws in our criminal justice system. To stop these injusti...

Four Men, 32 Years on Death Row, to Tour Eastern NC

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Source: pfadp.org Come hear four men who were exonerated from death row after 32 years tell their stories at churches and community centers ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Los Angeles California: FREE Activist Training

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Sat., June 19, 2010 - Los Angeles, CA Activist Training The Los Angeles County Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty is sponsoring...
Friday, June 11, 2010

California: Breaking News: Execution Procedures Rejected!

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More Than 7500 Supported California Racial Justice Act! Also look below for more information re: Sat., June 12, 2010 - San Francisco, CA Wor...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Bereaved Israeli Mother Speaks for Bereaved Palestinian Mothers

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Nurit Peled-Elhanan Israeli mother Addresses European Parliament in 2006 "I should cry for [Palestinian women], and fight for them. An...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

California: End the sentence of shame for family of executed

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Janis Gay, whose grandfather was executed at Folsom Prison. here We are beginning here a series on California and the Death Penalty Death Pe...

California Saturday: 80 + death pen Abolition Groups World Wide

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One-Day Free - San Francisco, California 2010 Annual General Assembly and Free One-Day Conference This will be a landmark event -- the first...

The History of California's Death Penalty

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1872 Capital punishment is authorized in Penal Code. 1891 California law is amended allowing for executions to take place inside state priso...
Saturday, June 05, 2010

"All men are created equal." Really?

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Some thoughts on racial discrimination during peremptory strikes in death penalty cases 1776: „...all men are created equal“ (Thomas Jeffers...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

DNA & Reform: Texas Editorial

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Credit for photo to The Innocence Project Moving toward reform in a post-DNA world OP Ed first posted in Dallas News (featured also at MVFR...

In Death-Penalty Cases, Innocence Has to Matter

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Hank Skinner, who is on death row in Texas, had a simple request. Before the state took his life, he wanted to test DNA evidence from the cr...
Friday, May 28, 2010

DNA : Alaska becomes 48th (The Innocence Project)

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On May 14, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell signed a new state law allowing prisoners to seek post-conviction DNA testing in cases where it can prov...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Former Florida Warden Haunted by Botched Execution

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Former Warden, Ron McAndrew Credit for photo to deathpenalty dot org There is a striking video 'out' of Mr. McAndrew...if anyone kno...
Monday, May 24, 2010

CALIFORNIA Soon! World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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One-Day Free - San Francisco, California 2010 Annual General Assembly and Free One-Day Conference This will be a landmark event -- the first...

DNA test now granted for Hank Skinner (Texas )

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Death Penalty and Execution News MAY 24, 2010: TEXAS: US Supreme Court Considers Texas Death Row Inmate's DNA Test Request----The Tarran...