The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents ...
Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...
Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...
Two dozen men are under sentences of death sought by Sacramento County prosecutors and imposed by local juries, state data ...
The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court ...
Many states have recognized the profound moral, legal and social costs of capital punishment. In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order that placed a moratorium on the death penalty in ...
The problems with the death penalty are well known, from exhibiting racial bias against defendants of color, to the very high cost of appeals and the great time involved. Capital punishment also ...
Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, ...
There has been a growing trend toward abolition, as public opinion has shifted, concerns about wrongful convictions have arisen, and the costs of death penalty cases have increased. Death penalty ...
The order did not include three inmates whose crimes included high-profile mass shootings ... nature of both the commutations and the death penalty more broadly. “The defendant never requested ...
President Biden pardoned the death sentences ... to be a one term President. High inflation (worse than our recent inflation) and the Iran hostage mess combined to cost him the 1980 election ...