A number of prosecutors in Utah are coming together to agitate in favour of abolishing the death penalty in that State: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/sl-co-da-building-coalition-of-prosecutors-to-end-the-death-penalty-in-utah and https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/utah-county-attorney-says-he-will-no-longer-seek-the-death-penalty-in-future-court-cases. A
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Litigating the Racist Nature of the Death Penalty
Lawyers for Walter Raglin who was sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of musician, Michael Bany, have filed a motion seeking a new trial
A christian perspective on why the death penalty is wrong
Shane Claiborne discusses Pope Francis’s August 2 condemnation of the death penalty and the strange fact that some Christians are proponents of the death penalty
democrats Urge Biden and Garland to stop seeking the death penalty
Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives have written to US Attorney-General, Merrick Garland, urging the Biden administration to stop seeking the death penalty
Analysis Published by the Lancet shows Generally Favourable Trends in the Direction of the use of Capital Punishment
Tahla Burki, writing in the medical magazine, The Lancet, draws on the Amnesty International annual report on executions around the world to draw a generally
AMNESTY’S ANNUAL REPORT BRINGS THE GOOD AND BAD NEWS ON EXECUTIONS IN 2020
Amnesty International’s annual report shows that China (whose number of executions is unknown), Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were the five countries who carried
AMAZING DRAWINGS FROM INDIGENOUS STOCKman WHO WAS FIRST PERSON TO BE HANGED IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
A story of injustice from 1890s Darwin comes with a collection of amazing drawings. Charlie Flannigan, the first person to be executed in the Northern
more on the nevada judiciary committee’s vote to abolish
The Nevada Assembly Judiciary Committee voted on Friday in support of a bill to abolish the death penalty in tha State. The six Republican members
