by Kathleen Lucas | Feb 22, 2018 | Cost, death penalty, moratorium
This letter was published on February 22, 2018 at GoErie.com Abolish the death penalty; it wastes too much money Feb. 13 marks the third anniversary of a moratorium that halted all executions in Pennsylvania. It was enacted by Gov. Tom Wolf in part because of the high...
by Kathleen Lucas | Feb 29, 2016 | ACCR, Amos Norwood, Atlantic Center for Captial Representation, Capital Habeas Unit, Castille, Elected Officials, Federal Community Defender, government, Judge Sarmina, Kathleen Lucas, Mamie Norwood, Marc Bookman, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Philadelphia, SCOTUS, Seth Williams, Shawn Nolan, Terry Williams, US Supreme Court
This morning, the US Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that goes to the very heart of the issue of fairness. The question in Williams v. Pennsylvania is whether a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, who was the District Attorney at the time a case was...
by Kathleen Lucas | Jul 15, 2015 | bad government policy, Byron Halsey, Cost, Elected Officials, government misconduct, Innocence, Kathleen Lucas, rape, restitution, Tina Urquhart, Tyrone Urquhart, wasteful government spending
Next time you defend the death penalty by saying that it’s the appropriate punishment for a person who confesses or when the crime is unspeakable, you might want to remember this. http://ow.ly/PDUdv Two young children were raped and murdered in the basement of...
by Kathleen Lucas | Apr 2, 2015 | Alabama, Anthony Ray Hinton, Delaware, Innocence, Ohio Innocence Project
Repeal bill passed the senate in Delaware Former Alabama Death Row inmate Anthony Ray Hinton to be freed after new testing on bullets And for more proof of how the system is too error-prone to allow government killing, there’s this: three men...
by Kathleen Lucas | Mar 23, 2015 | False Testimony, government misconduct, Innocence, Kathleen Lucas, Prosecutorial Misconduct
Dear Emily Post, I’m faced with an etiquette dilemma and I could sure use your help. How, precisely, does one make up for sentencing an innocent person to death? Does the proper response change based on the number of years that have passed since the wrongful...
