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 Marshall Dayan | May 27, 2015 | Authors, Faith, False Testimony, government misconduct, Innocence, Marshall Dayan, Marshall Dayan, Politics
Nebraska makes history! The Nebraska legislature, having passed a death penalty repeal bill last week, sustained that repeal by overriding today Governor Pete Ricketts’ veto by a vote of 30-19. This is a huge victory for the national movement to abolish...
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...
by Kathleen Lucas | Nov 6, 2014 | Innocence, Kathleen Lucas, Shujaa Graham, Speakers, Spero Lappas, Uncategorized, Vicki Schieber
Monday, November 17, 2014 Stern Center, Great Room, 7 p.m. Dickinson College 208 W Louther St., Carlisle PA Panelists: Kathleen Lucas (moderator), Executive Director, Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Shujaa Graham, Death Row Exoneree Spero Lappas,...
by Kathleen Lucas | Sep 4, 2014 | government misconduct, Innocence, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Race
September 3, 2014 The exoneration of two North Carolina men who spent 30 years in prison — one on death row — provides a textbook example of so much that is broken in the American justice system. And it is further evidence (as though more were needed) that the death...
