Author: stephenjkeim

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/

The island republic continues to use capital and corporal punishment executing a Malaysian man on 23 March 2019: https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/03/471832/despite-appeals-malaysian-michael-garing-executed-singapore

Amazing insight into life on death row in the light of the moratorium: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/03/19/san-quentins-chaplain-californias-death-penalty-moratorium-has-given-us-hope

Sign the petition calling for a federal moratorium on executions in the United States: https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/petitions/sign-the-petition-we-must-have-a-federal-moratorium-on-the-death-penalty?one_click_ab_redirect=true&ab_page_name=massincarceration2019&ab_refcode=20190315deathpenalty&widget_style=1

Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020, Kamala Harris, called for a moratorium on executions at the Federal level in the wake of

This interesting article from the New Yorker looks at Governor Gavin Newsome’s act of imposing a moratorium on executions in California: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/gavin-newsom-and-the-new-politics-of-the-death-penalty