“Uncertainties about the human mind loom large,” she wrote. “Even as some puzzles get resolved, others emerge. And those perennial gaps in knowledge intersect with differing opinions about how far, and in what ways, mental ...
“The actions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Governor of the State of Alabama are reprehensible…” The State of Alabama executed Nathaniel Woods for the 2004 murders of three Birmingham police officers despite court ...
“Killing this African American man, whose case appears to have been strongly mishandled by the courts, could produce an irreversible injustice. Are you willing to allow a potentially innocent man to be executed?” (By: Jessica ...
Washington state ruled the application of the death penalty is racially biased and converted eight death penalty sentences to life in prison. The state of Washington struck down the death penalty last Thursday. The state’s ...
Reposted with permission from ProPublica, by Joaquin Sapien Ruddy Quezada, a 54-year-old man wrongfully convicted of a deadly drive-by shooting in 1993, has won a $4.5 million settlement from New York state, according to court papers. ...
Under much controversy and ignoring Ledell Lee’s request for DNA testing, Arkansas executed Ledell Lee in the state’s first death row execution since 2005. Lee is one of eight men Arkansas is attempting to execute ...