by Kathleen Lucas | Aug 26, 2016 | News
August 26, 2016, A recent court ruling that a man on death row was denied a fair trial is yet another sign that the state’s death penalty should be abolished, according to Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (PADP)…
by Kathleen Lucas | Aug 26, 2016 | News
August 26, 2016 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit showed us that the death penalty is a flawed system (“New trial ordered in 1991 slaying,” Wednesday)…
by Kathleen Lucas | Aug 25, 2016 | News
August 25, 2016 Justice has finally come for James “Jimmy” Dennis. Twenty-four years ago, Dennis was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of 17-year-old Chedell Williams. But the jury wasn’t presented with all the facts of the case…
by Kathleen Lucas | Aug 2, 2016 | News
August 2, 2016, Delaware’s rules for imposing the death penalty are unconstitutional, the state’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, a decision that could mean an effective end to capital punishment in Delaware…
by Kathleen Lucas | Aug 1, 2016 | News
August 2, 2016 One afternoon, Donnie Calhoun, owner of Calhoun Compounding Pharmacy in Anniston, Alabama—”Compounding for Life’s Problems”—came back from a meeting to find a strange request from the Alabama Department of Corrections. The girl who’d answered the phone...
by Kathleen Lucas | Apr 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Repeal bill passed the senate in Delaware Former Alabama Death Row inmate Anthony Ray Hinton to be freed after new testing on bullets And for more proof of how the system is too error-prone to allow government killing, there’s this: three men...
