Capital punishment too costly to justify
June 3, 2017, Centre County voters favored a new DA, Bernie Cantorna, in the recent primary election. I can find no record of his position on capital punishment.…
Three Murders in Philadelphia
May 12, 2017, In the early 1990s, the police arrested three men for crimes they didn’t commit. It’s taken more than 25 years for justice to be served.…
Arkansas’s Execution Spree and the Problems with Capital Punishment
April 25, 2017, Over the past few weeks, the state of Arkansas has been trying to obtain warrants to execute eight death row inmates before the end of the month. The deadline was set in order to use the state’s supply of lethal injection drug midazolam before it is...
Refusing to Make a Monster out of God: Shane Claiborne on the Death Penalty
April 19, 2017 Activists campaigning to abolish the death penalty recently confronted a new and urgent occasion for their efforts, when the state of Arkansas announced it would execute eight death-row inmates in a ten-day period because its store of chemicals for...
Supports repeal of death penalty
March 14, 2017, State Rep. Chris Rabb, of Philadelphia, has confirmed the rumor that he is planning to introduce a bill to repeal Pennsylvania’s death penalty law. I fully support his decision. I believe abolition of our capital punishment system is long overdue…
Commentary: Next DA must end capital punishment in Philly
March 7, 2017 Companion reports released on March 7 by the National Registry of Exonerations found record numbers of exonerations and wrongful convictions involving official misconduct in 2016, and striking evidence of racial bias both in the wrongful convictions...