by Kathleen Lucas | Mar 11, 2015 | Marlene Lang
Letter to the Editor I’m wondering what qualifies Tom Kearney to speak for the loved ones of murder victims, and why I should presume he understands the “pain and anguish that victims’ loved ones feel” but somehow “Gov. Wolf does not understand”? Kearney’s statement...
by Kathleen Lucas | Nov 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
In at least 80 capital cases in which attorneys have missed the deadline, it is almost always the prisoner alone who suffers the consequences. In the fall of 2006, a Florida attorney named Mary Catherine Bonner went before the U.S. Supreme Court to plead for a...
by Kathleen Lucas | Nov 6, 2014 | Kathleen Lucas
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,...
by Kathleen Lucas | Sep 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by Kathleen Lucas | Sep 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...