by Dawn Blagrove | Jan 25, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
Dylan Roof was sentenced to death on January 11 for the murder of 9 parishioners during Bible study at Mother Emanuel Baptist Church. Roof was sentenced for crimes that caused untold suffering to the nine families of those at Mother Emanuel, the surviving victims and...
by Dawn Blagrove | Jan 25, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
An article entitled These Lives Matter, Those Ones Don’t: Comparing Execution Rates by the Race and Gender of the Victim in the US and in the Top Death Penalty States, recently published in the Albany Law Review, tackles data on how the race of a victim impacts...
by Dawn Blagrove | Nov 23, 2016 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
There were important referendums on the death penalty on the ballot in several states on November 9th. Despite some of these setbacks, actual executions and support for the death penalty continue to be on a downward trend. Oklahoma amended its State Constitution to...
by Dawn Blagrove | Nov 5, 2016 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
In 1997, Phillip Davis, who was an 18 year old, with a borderline intellectual capacity, entered a guilty plea to two counts of murder. The state sought the death penalty and prepared to pick a jury it could convince that Phillip should die for his crimes. While...
by Dawn Blagrove | Oct 10, 2016 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
After gaining national attention for botching it’s last execution in 2014, Ohio is trying yet another drug cocktail. This time it will be following Oklahoma’s lead – another botched execution state – and using a 3 drug protocol that includes...
by Dawn Blagrove | Jul 26, 2016 | Ending the Death Penalty
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two brothers will receive more than $1 million from the state of North Carolina after they were wrongfully imprisoned for three decades in the killing of an 11-year-old girl, but for one of them, the windfall isn’t the issue. “It...
