by Dawn Blagrove | Apr 10, 2018 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
The American Bar Association has created a new web resource devoted to the clemency process in death penalty cases. The resource, called the Capital Clemency Resource Initiative Clearinghouse, is the result of a collaboration between the ABA Death Penalty...
by Dawn Blagrove | Jan 30, 2018 | CJPC News, Criminal Justice Reform, Ending the Death Penalty
While prosecutors have a large amount of discretion in their work, they are not permitted to hide evidence that could be exculpatory for a defendant. In a recent Colorado case, prosecutors possessed two reports that that pointed to other suspects since the beginning...
by Dawn Blagrove | Jan 30, 2018 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
On Wednesday, a Wake County jury sentenced Donovan Richardson to life in prison for his role in a 2014 double murder. He is one of three men accused in the crime of murdering two elderly men at their home in Fuquay Varina. One of the other men pleaded guilty and will...
by Dawn Blagrove | Oct 12, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
The US Supreme Court issued Georgia death row inmate Keith Tharpe a stay of execution last week because of racial bias from a juror who sentenced him back in 1990 for the murder of his sister-in-law, Jacquelin Freeman. The justices granted him the stay while they...
by Dawn Blagrove | Aug 30, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
In a display of courage and commitment to justice, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens halted the execution of Marcellus Williams mere hours before he was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. DNA testing raised questions about whether he had committed a murder during a...
by Dawn Blagrove | Aug 16, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
By Amanda Witwer, UNC-Chapel Hill Public Policy Student Apart from being an avid reader and a devoted Tarheel fan, my pen pal is an inmate who has spent the last nineteen years of his life on North Carolina’s death row. Out of respect for his privacy, I will...
