Death Penalty Blog
"Get the latest news on the death penalty in the United States and worldwide, and learn how you can work with Amnesty International USA to abolish capital punishment."
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Recent Posts from Death Penalty Blog
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Texas: First the Execution, Then the Hearing
Charles Dean Hood is scheduled to be executed on September 10. The good news is that a hearing has been scheduled to consider explosive evidence about the fairness of his original trial, involving allegations that…
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Child Offender Executions Continue
Yesterday, Iran executed another juvenile offender. That makes 6 so far this year (221 non-juvenile offenders have also been put to death in Iran). No other country has executed a juvenile offender this year, though…
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In Memoriam: Rachel King, 1963-2008
We are sad to announce the passing of a long-time anti-death penalty activist, who died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. Rachel achieved many great things in her short lifetime, and we will be…
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Two Stays
Both Dennis Skillicorn and Jeff Wood have received stays of execution; in both cases, they had been sentenced to death despite the fact that they did not actually kill. But neither stay was related to…
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Executing Accomplices
UPDATE: Jeffery Lee Wood was stayed this afternoon by a federal judge in order to allow for more time to evaluate his mental capacity. Jeffery Lee Wood and Dennis Skillicorn are two death row inmates…
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Mentally Ill Offenders Languishing on Death Row
Raymond Riles has spent 33 years on Texas death row for the 1974 robbery and murder of Houston used car salesman John Henry. In the nation's most active execution state, Riles' stay on death row…
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Iran's Judiciary to Review Stoning
Last Wednesday, Iranian press reported that Iran's Judiciary had drafted legislation to remove stoning from their methods of execution. The draft legislation has been submitted to the parliament for approval, where the parliament's legal commission…
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Another Foreign National Executed in Texas
Last night, two nights after putting Mexican national Jose Medellin to death, the state of Texas executed Heliberto Chi, a national from Honduras. He was convicted of a killing Armand Paliotta during a robbery in…
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Live from the Maryland Commission...
Yesterday's Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment featured a continuation of racial, jurisdictional, and socio-economic disparities in capital punishment sentencing. The Commission heard expert testimony on the U.S. Supreme Court and Maryland Death Penalty Law. The…
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Jose Medellin Executed
In upholding the José Medellin execution the unsigned opinion of Supreme Court's 5-4 majority makes some strange arguments. First, they insist that: "The beginning premise for any stay, and indeed for the assumption that Congress…