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End death penalty for dollars and sense |
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August 14, 2012
By Gil Garcetti
My office sought the death penalty in dozens of cases when I was the Los Angeles County district attorney for eight years, and chief deputy district attorney for four. The cases had horrific and compelling facts; I had no problem seeking death sentences. But though I never was squeamish, I now fully support Proposition 34 to replace the death penalty with life in prison with no possibility of parole. Here's why.
California's death penalty is broken beyond repair, hideously expensive, and inevitably carries the risk of executing an innocent person. The hundreds of millions of dollars we throw away on this broken system would be much better spent on solving and preventing crime and investing in our kids' schools.
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How Many NC Barber Shops Want to Cut the Death Penalty? |
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August 8, 2012
Live in North Carolina?
You know that little ma ‘n pa shop in your town that you love to go to?
Well, there’s a good chance that Beto Bravo has been there too.
Except Beto’s been shopping for something entirely different.
Since starting with People of Faith Against the Death Penalty as a Jesuit Volunteer community organizer last August, Beto has journeyed all across North Carolina to help expand our grassroots base for repealing the death penalty.
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Tragedy compounded: Killers' parents become instant pariahs |
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July 25, 2012
By JoNel Aleccia, NBC News
As news crews swarmed outside the tile-roofed house of accused shooter James Eagan Holmes’ parents in an upscale suburb of San Diego, a stranger 1,300 miles away in Texas grieved for those inside.
“I’ve been worried about the family,” said Lois Robison, 78. “I know what it’s like to find out your son has killed several people.”
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3 convicted murderers seek to use 2009 version of North Carolina's Racial Justice Act |
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July 15, 2012
By Paul Woolverton
Fayetteville Observer
State lawmakers this month revised the N.C. Racial Justice Act to make it harder for condemned prisoners to get off death row.
But three convicted murderers who will try to win claims in Cumberland County this fall want to base their arguments on the original 2009 version of the law. More than 150 other death-row inmates may try to do the same.
The passage of the new Racial Justice Act has further complicated the legal questions over what had been the second such law in the nation to give condemned prisoners an opportunity to argue that racism contributed to their sentences.
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Ga. announces switch to single-drug method for executions even as a death penalty case looms |
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July 17, 2012
By Associated Press
ATLANTA — Georgia announced Tuesday that it is switching immediately to single-drug executions from a three-drug combination, following the lead of several other states even as a death row case loomed.
The Georgia Department of Corrections said it will begin using a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital to carry out court-ordered death sentences. It had been using pentobarbital to sedate inmates before injecting pancuronium bromide to paralyze them and then potassium chloride to stop their hearts.
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A Day in the Life of the Death Penalty: July 18, 2012 |
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July 11, 2012
By Andrew Cohen
The Atlantic
Next Wednesday, July 18, reckons to be another banner day in the history of capital punishment in America. Sometime between 6 p.m. and midnight, the state of Texas is scheduled to execute a convicted murderer named Yokamon Hearn, a man who has, since early childhood, shown clear and consistent evidence of brain damage. And at 7 p.m., the state of Georgia plans to execute a convicted murderer named Warren Hill, who years ago was deemed by a veteran state judge to be mentally retarded.
These executions will take place, absent extraordinary Supreme Court or gubernatorial intervention, because federal and state judges at lower levels of our nation's justice system have perversely interpreted recent United States Supreme Court decisions. Whereas the Justices have tried in the past few years to give men like Hearn and Hill more access to meaningful appellate review, judicial obstructionists down below have refused to apply either the letter or the spirit of the new procedural rules.
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