Commentary: Next DA must end capital punishment in Philly
February 22, 2017 With Seth Williams’ decision not to seek a third term as district attorney, Philadelphia now has a chance to join the rest of the Northeast in moving forward without the death penalty…
Wake up call
February 21, 2017 At 6:19 a.m. Saturday morning ACCR staff got the call: 38 years, 3 months and 4 days after the 14-year-old Ricky Olds went to prison for buying a bag of potato chips with the wrong crowd, he was going home a free man. rickyfree If you don’t believe...
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…