For the second time in four months, Tennessee’s death penalty protocol has failed to work. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, inmate Christa Pike was “alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection and taken by ambulance from the prison,” her…
Ivey commutes death sentence of man who didn’t kill anyone
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of 75-year-old Charles “Sonny” Burton to life without the possibility of parole March 10. He was scheduled to die two days later by nitrogen gas. Burton has spent three decades on Death…
Coalition forms to end capital punishment state by state
A coalition of anti-death penalty groups has united to end capital punishment state by state and just as U.S. executions are surging. The alliance of more than 50 organizations was launched earlier this month to coordinate nationwide abolition efforts led…
Opposition to death penalty gaining steam through broad coalition
America’s anti-capital punishment movement is growing in political, religious and racial diversity even as the nation continues to fracture along partisan lines, a leading death penalty abolitionist said. “It does feel hopeful to work on this issue because we work…