What’s Next for Repeal Efforts?
Executive Summary Recent 2025 polling indicates a historic shift in Pennsylvania’s stance on capital punishment, with support falling to a record low of 29%. Driven by concerns over government fallibility and the risk of executing the innocent, a bipartisan coalition...
Death Penalty Info Center Year-End Report
The Death Penalty in 2025: Majority of Capital Juries in 2025 Rejected Death Sentences This week the Death Penalty Information Center published their year-end report, reinforcing the fact that the increase in executions is out-of-step with public views on the death...
Editorial: Death Penalty Decisions Must Be Based On Evidence
"The death penalty is divisive. Support for and opposition to it is not as easy as political party or position. It is all over the map. There are people with firmly held convictions about crime and law enforcement who draw a line when it comes to capital punishment....
New Survey Shows Pennsylvanians Prefer Preservation of Life Over the Death Penalty
October 8, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Andy Hoover, Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, andy@hoovercomms.com, 717-256-1293 Kathleen Lucas, Pennsylvanians Against the Death Penalty, klucas@padp.org HARRISBURG - New public opinion data from...
201st Death Row Exoneree Gets His Certificate of Innocence
"After being branded a monster and spending more than 30 years in prison for murder, Mr. Melock’s name and record are finally cleared. “I can finally hold my head up high,” he says. WAUKEGAN, Il. – Robert Melock was only 22 in January 1989, when he was arrested and...
The Death Penalty Persists in the U.S.
Even as the national and global trends remain overwhelmingly towards abolition of the death penalty, some states remain unapologetically emboldened, especially in the ex-Confederate states of the (Deep) South, to continue carrying out executions. Even with a few...