Delaware Supreme Court Rules State’s Death Penalty Unconstitutional
August 2, 2016, Delaware’s rules for imposing the death penalty are unconstitutional, the state’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, a decision that could mean an effective end to capital punishment in Delaware…
The Sordid Ways Death-Penalty States Obtain Execution Drugs
August 2, 2016 One afternoon, Donnie Calhoun, owner of Calhoun Compounding Pharmacy in Anniston, Alabama—”Compounding for Life’s Problems”—came back from a meeting to find a strange request from the Alabama Department of Corrections. The girl who’d answered the phone...
Death by blackness?
by PADP Board Member Shane Claiborne The color of your skin shouldn’t determine whether you live or die. But that is precisely the case for Duane Buck, a Texas man facing execution. His case is before the Supreme Court this month. Earlier this month, the nation’s...
Williams v. Pennsylvania at the US Supreme Court
This morning, the US Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that goes to the very heart of the issue of fairness. The question in Williams v. Pennsylvania is whether a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, who was the District Attorney at the time a case was...
Warning: If you want to cling to your ignorance, don’t read this.
Next time you defend the death penalty by saying that it's the appropriate punishment for a person who confesses or when the crime is unspeakable, you might want to remember this. http://ow.ly/PDUdv Two young children were raped and murdered in the basement of their...
Governor Wolf has the high ground here
The wording of House Resolution 143 calls Governor Wolf’s moratorium on the death penalty unconstitutional. The action taken by the governor was a moratorium on executions until a study is complete. Wolf has not disregarded the constitution; rather, the governor has...