More needs to be done to fix flawed system
February 20, 2017 Most people probably don’t associate Valentine’s Day with the death penalty, but i do…
Pa. should permanently end the flawed and costly death penalty
February 13, 2017 is the second anniversary of Gov. Tom Wolf’s moratorium on executions. The moratorium was wise because it halted a system that is filled with flaws…
Three years late, seminal death penalty report still unfinished
January 3, 2017, Already three years behind schedule, a committee studying flaws in Pennsylvania’s death penalty is still a long way away from issuing its much-anticipated report...
Troubling implications
October 22, 2016 Last Thursday, a Centre County court ordered Kevin Siehl to be released from prison. Judge David Grine dismissed the murder charges against Siehl in part because prosecutors withheld evidence of his innocence…
Pennsylvania’s Shame
October 12, 2016 In 1991, the Philadelphia district attorney’s office indicted a 20-year-old black man named Anthony Wright on a charge of capital murder. The alleged crime was heinous...
Support for death penalty lowest in more than four decades
September 29, 2016 As the Supreme Court prepares to hear the first of two death penalty cases in this year’s term, the share of Americans who support the death penalty for people convicted of murder is now at its lowest point in more than four decades…