by updater | Dec 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Death Penalty in 2025: Majority of Capital Juries in 2025 Rejected Death Sentences This week the Death Penalty Information Center published their year-end report, reinforcing the fact that the increase in executions is out-of-step with public views on the death...
by updater | Oct 16, 2025 | Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania, News, Prosecution
“The death penalty is divisive. Support for and opposition to it is not as easy as political party or position. It is all over the map. There are people with firmly held convictions about crime and law enforcement who draw a line when it comes to capital...
by updater | Aug 22, 2025 | Innocence, Wrongful Conviction
“After being branded a monster and spending more than 30 years in prison for murder, Mr. Melock’s name and record are finally cleared. “I can finally hold my head up high,” he says. WAUKEGAN, Il. – Robert Melock was only 22 in January 1989, when he was arrested...
by updater | Mar 19, 2025 | News
Even as the national and global trends remain overwhelmingly towards abolition of the death penalty, some states remain unapologetically emboldened, especially in the ex-Confederate states of the (Deep) South, to continue carrying out executions. Even with a few...
by updater | Mar 19, 2025 | News
Why I oppose the death penalty and why I’m working to abolish it in Pennsylvania. I have long been personally opposed to the death penalty and am now working to take it off the books in Pennsylvania via House Bill 888, which I introduced this week with...
