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New Poll: Pennsylvanians Overwhelmingly Prefer Life Over the Death Penalty as the Appropriate Punishment for Murder
A new statewide poll of Pennsylvania voters has found that Pennsylvanians have little or no faith in the government to fairly apply the death penalty and that they overwhelmingly prefer some form of a life sentence over the death penalty....
Executions are Up but the Sky is Not Falling
Executions in the United States are up — way up — in 2025. But despite rising anxiety among death penalty abolitionists, the sky is not falling. Because “up” is a relative term, and even with the wave of new death warrants this year and the...
The Death Penalty Inherently Risks Executing Innocent People. Pennsylvania has already done it.
The greatest fear in a rational system of justice that authorizes capital punishment is that innocent people will be sentenced to death and may be executed. That risk is inherent wherever the death penalty is employed and is a historical re...
Surge in U.S. Executions Exhibits Huge White-Victim Preference
When Tennessee executed Oscar Smith on May 22, few commentators suggested that his case provided evidence that U.S. states wield the death penalty as an implement of power to reinforce the racial hierarchy in the U.S. social order. After al...
Spring 2025 Death Row USA: U.S. Death Row Down 7.2% in Past Year; Recent Executions Point to Growing Race-of-Victim Bias
The number of prisoners on death rows or facing capital retrials or resentencing proceedings across the United States has fallen to 2,067 as of April 1, 2025, according to the Spring 2025 Death Row U.S.A. (“DRUSA”),1 a quarterly census of t...
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Director, Death Penalty Policy Project; Special Counsel, Phillips Black; adj. prof, Temple Law. Formerly Exec Dir, Death Penalty Info Ctr; Exec Dir, PA Capital Case Resource Ctr; PA capital habeas unit fed defender; 11 yrs, adj. prof, Villanova Law.
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