The Death Penalty: Beyond the Numbers
Monday, November 17, 2014 Stern Center, Great Room, 7 p.m. Dickinson College 208 W Louther St., Carlisle PA Panelists: Kathleen Lucas (moderator), Executive Director, Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Shujaa Graham, Death Row Exoneree Spero Lappas,...
Rethink Executions from Philly.com
Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 1:08 AM Nearly surrounded by states that wisely have scrapped the death penalty - and with ample concerns already raised about the fairness and risk for error in sentencing defendants to death row - Pennsylvania has encountered...
NY Times Editorial: The Innocent on Death Row
September 3, 2014 The exoneration of two North Carolina men who spent 30 years in prison — one on death row — provides a textbook example of so much that is broken in the American justice system. And it is further evidence (as though more were needed) that the death...
U.K. Marks 50 Years Without Death Penalty- Huffington Post
Is Torture Justice?
I am sickened by the news of another botched execution. The line between a death sentence and torture is beginning to be blurred. There are no regulations for the unethical process of taking a life, and that is appalling to me. The executioners aren't doctors, or even...
Arizona Ignored Real Risks
This past Wednesday the state of Arizona carried out a botched execution on Joseph Wood, a man convicted of double murder in 1989. Wood was sentenced to death after being found guilty of killing both his ex-girlfriend and her father. The state of Arizona killed him...