by Kathleen Lucas | Nov 3, 2020 | Blog, Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania, Heejae Jung
Reflections by our intern, Heejae Jung. Heejae is a sophomore at Vassar and is with us for the fall 2020 semester. In mid-July, the embers of fireworks were still ingrained in my memory from the celebration of Independence day and reawakened by the occasional...
by Margaret Maguire | Jun 30, 2020 | Blog, News
27 years ago three activists gathered outside the Supreme Court for four days and three nights, Starvin’ 4 Justice. *** 48 years ago, on June 29, 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty was unconstitutional in application, being...
by Kathleen Lucas | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Marshall Dayan
With Vicki Schieber, Pittsburgh October 2018 To My Concerned Friends, This past Saturday morning, I was in synagogue, standing next to the Torah. As we were reading of the binding of Isaac, other folks got word of the shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel...
by Kathleen Lucas | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog
The arbitrariness of the death penalty is one of its worst attributes. If the government is going to carry out capital punishment on its citizens, it should at least be consistent about it. Death sentences are influenced by geography, race, gender, wealth, and mental...
by Kathleen Lucas | Feb 22, 2018 | Blog
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 Shane Claiborne | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Shane Claiborne
by PADP Board Member Shane Claiborne The color of your skin shouldn’t determine whether you live or die. But that is precisely the case for Duane Buck, a Texas man facing execution. His case is before the Supreme Court this month. Earlier this month, the nation’s...
