Podcast: Paul Dacier explains reasons for Boston Bar Association’s opposition to death penalty
By: David E. Frank January 7, 2014 The Boston Bar Association announced today that, for the first time in its 250-year history, the organization is taking a stand against the death penalty in federal cases. The announcement comes after a panel chaired by...
PA Death Sentence Nixed for 'Shocking' Error by Lorraine Bailey
Taken From Courthouse News: (CN) - Vacating the death sentence imposed against a convicted murderer, the Pennsylvania high court called it "shocking" that jurors were told that killing an unborn child is a capital offense. Harold Murray IV was convicted in 2006 of...
Philly Leads the (Wrong) Way!
Philadelphia County has sent more inmates to death row than any other county in Pennsylvania. However, a study of criminal cases overturned in the state because of prosecutorial misconduct found over 60% of the cases came from Philadelphia. Radley Balko, writing in...
If Jimmy Dennis Was Unjustly Sentenced, Why Is He Still on Death Row?
cross-posted from www.newsworks.com On Aug. 21, 2013, a judge in Philadelphia said Jimmy Dennis, convicted 21 years ago of the murder of Chedell Ray Williams, deserved to be retried within 180 days or to be set free. He is still on death row. I remember hearing about...
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Opposes Death Penalty in United States
From Marshall Dayan, Board Chair of Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty I just learned that the committee on law of the Conservative Jewish movement, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, reaffirmed the movement's opposition to capital punishment...
Supreme Court Rejects Warren Hill's Petition for Stay of Execution
By Brian Evans, Amnesty International Georgia authorities continue to pursue the execution of Warren Hill despite the fact that: The victim’s family opposes the execution Several jurors from the trial now object to the execution All 7 doctors who have...