by Kathleen Lucas | Aug 1, 2016 | News
August 2, 2016 One afternoon, Donnie Calhoun, owner of Calhoun Compounding Pharmacy in Anniston, Alabama—”Compounding for Life’s Problems”—came back from a meeting to find a strange request from the Alabama Department of Corrections. The girl who’d answered the phone...
by Kathleen Lucas | Feb 29, 2016 | Kathleen Lucas
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 | Kathleen Lucas
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Kathleen Lucas
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...
