April 19, 2017 Activists campaigning to abolish the death penalty recently confronted a new and urgent occasion for their efforts, when the state of Arkansas announced it would execute eight death-row inmates in a ten-day period because its store of chemicals for lethal injection was about to expire.…
PennLive Opinion: Why four Supreme Court justices changed their minds on capital punishment
By Marshall Dayan The modern death penalty in the United States turned 50 on July 2, 2026. In Gregg v. Georgia, the...
