Nebraska repealed the death penalty!
Nebraska makes history! The Nebraska legislature, having passed a death penalty repeal bill last week, sustained that repeal by overriding today Governor Pete Ricketts' veto by a vote of 30-19. This is a huge victory for the national movement to abolish the...
Great news on the death penalty abolition front
Repeal bill passed the senate in Delaware Former Alabama Death Row inmate Anthony Ray Hinton to be freed after new testing on bullets And for more proof of how the system is too error-prone to allow government killing, there's this: three men convicted...
Proper etiquette for handling exoneration from death row
Dear Emily Post, I'm faced with an etiquette dilemma and I could sure use your help. How, precisely, does one make up for sentencing an innocent person to death? Does the proper response change based on the number of years that have passed since the wrongful...
DA Stedman disregarded my opposition to the death penalty
Posted: Sunday, March 22, 2015 6:00 am LINELL PATTERSON l SPECIAL TO LNP I was shocked and saddened when I opened the newspaper several weeks ago and read an op-ed from Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman (“Governor’s moratorium violates his oath of...
Widow: I don’t want to see him executed
Over two years ago, Mrs. Norwood stated, in writing, that she did not want Terry Williams to be executed for her husband's murder. Today, she reasserted her position. But the District Attorney and some House Representatives deliberately ignored her wishes and...
Upcoming Events
Joe D’Ambrosio: Death Row Story Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 7:00pm Taylor Little Theatre, Main Drive, Erie, PA 16504, USA Mercyhurst University Meryhurst University is bringing Joe D'Ambrosio, who was convicted of murder and on death row for 21 years before being...