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 Andrew Keck | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
October 8, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Andy Hoover, Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, andy@hoovercomms.com, 717-256-1293 Kathleen Lucas, Pennsylvanians Against the Death Penalty, klucas@padp.org HARRISBURG – New public opinion data from...
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...
by updater | Dec 23, 2024 | News
