Aramis Ayala, the Florida Attorney-General, has announced that she will not seek re-election as attorney-general in the wake of the Florida Supreme Court’s decision to
New Hampshire finally Bites the Bullet of Abolition
New Hampshire has just become the 21st State in the United States to abolish the death penalty: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/30/18646033/new-hampshire-just-became-the-21st-state-to-abolish-the-death-penalty
Brunei Backs Down on its Plan to Execute Gay People
The resistance world wide has caused the Sulta of Brunei to say that his country will not now carry out its plan to impose the
Annual global Death Penalty report
PLEASE FIND THE FULL REPORT HERE Global executions fell by almost one-third last year to the lowest figure in at least a decade, Amnesty International said
Mental health and life on death row in Pakistan
Khizar Hayat dies after 16 miserable years on death row with schizophrenia: https://www.dawn.com/news/1471220
Jailing Black people always had a profit motive
This article which is about using the criminal justice system to create neo-slavery. It has close parallels to the links between the end of lynching
The Supreme Court ruled that ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ no longer precludes unusually cruel punishments
The highest criminal justice priority of the current Supreme Court majority is apparently to make the state’s machinery of death work as efficiently as possible
California’s Cost of Killing People
Four billion dollars that could have been spent on crime prevention policies and rebuilding society: https://thecrimereport.org/2019/03/14/death-penalty-another-failed-big-government-program-ca-conservative/
