HARRISBURG -- Joined by death penalty foes, Democratic state Sen. Jim Ferlo of Pittsburgh today announced legislation that would establish a two-year moratorium on imposing the death penalty. Unequal justice is being meted out in Pennsylvania," Ferlo said. "Many individuals have found themselves victims of our justice system, rather than the beneficiaries of it.
As the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday morning, 14 protesters were arrested outside the Supreme Court building, according to a Court spokesperson. The protesters apparently took to the marble plaza in front of the Supreme Court's grand marble stairs Tuesday morning to protest on the 35th anniversary of a decision upholding the constitutionality of capital punishment. The ruling ended a ten- year moratorium on death penalty sentences, according to the Associated Press.
Editor, the Tribune: Dear Attorney General Jay Nixon, the League of Women Voters of Missouri urges you to support continuation of the moratorium on the death penalty. The recent court's decision on Missouri's lethal injection is permissive, not mandatory. It just makes it allowable to execute someone. It does not make the application of the death penalty more just, fair or equitable. It is unfortunate that the bill that called for a moratorium and a thorough study of the death penalty did not pass in the last legislative session. Such a study would show whether all the variables such as race, education, economic status and geography favored one individual over another. If the death penalty is resumed, it should, at the very least, be applied so that no innocent person is executed, a sta...
INDIANAPOLIS - Death penalty opponents have formed a new coalition in an effort to halt executions in Indiana until the costs and fairness of the system can be examined. The Indiana Coalition Acting to Suspend Executions says Indiana needs more safeguards in capital cases. A 2007 report as part of an American Bar Association project found the state lacked an ability for its appeals courts to review whether different crimes merit death sentences.
BY DARREN FREEMAN THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Governor bans death penalty for his term SALEM, Ore. - Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber on Tuesday imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term, saying he's morally opposed to capital punishment and has long regretted allowing two men to be executed in the 1990s.
UTAH STATE PRISON -- Ronnie Lee Gardner, who a quarter century ago put bullets into the heads of two good men, died in the earliest minutes of this morning with wounds from four .30-caliber rifle rounds in his chest. He became the third inmate in Utah -- and the United States -- to be executed by firing squad since a nationwide moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in 1976 and the first since John Albert Taylor's execution in 1996.
Illinois abolished the death penalty Wednesday, more than a decade after the state imposed a moratorium on executions out of concern that innocent people could be put to death by a justice system that had wrongly condemned 13 men. Gov. Pat Quinn also commuted the sentences of all 15 inmates remaining on death row. They will now serve life in prison with no chance of parole.
Another issue that is relevant in Williams' case. Just a point of note, Blacks who kill other Blacks have the lowest death-sentencing rate of the four categories mentioned. Hmmm ... The point is that the judge, the prosecutor and the jury see when a Black defendant is involved, and the public polls higher, in favor of the death penalty, when an execution date is set-understanding that it will disproportionately Black defendants. Of the 59 people put to death in 2004, a third (19) were Black. California executed one person in 2004, a Hispanic. Race and the death penalty is not a figment of our imagination. In fact, it's a figment of nobody's imagination. This issue has been studied for the past 20 years. So disparate is race in death penalty cases evident that last year, a group of 450 a...
... Bar Association called for a two year moratorium on executions until the state reviews whether capi...
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