Sister Prejean Discusses Social Justice and Death Penalty as Common Read Speaker
“People need to know,” said Sister Helen Prejean. “Most people have never thought about the death penalty, because it doesn’t touch their daily lives. Together, we need to change it.”
Death Penalty Is Arbitrary
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...
Death Penalty Wastes Too Much Money
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...
Pennsylvania has fewest number of inmates on death row in nearly 25 years
September 6, 2017 More than a dozen inmates in Pennsylvania have been removed from death row this year, leaving the commonwealth with the fewest under a death sentence in nearly a quarter-century…
Pa. high court orders new death penalty hearing in ’84 murder of Germantown deacon
August 22, 2017 In a case that reignited scrutiny of Pennsylvania’s death penalty and the workings of the state’s highest court, an evenly divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered a new death penalty hearing for Terrance Williams, convicted and condemned in the...
Innocent man who survived 22 years on Pennsylvania death row speaks out
June 29, 2017 An innocent man who survived 22 years in solitary confinement on death row has spoken out about living among some of America’s most dangerous criminals. …