The Supreme Court Made a Death Penalty Decision in the Dead of the Night and Justice Breyer Is Pissed
Mother Jones
“Women on Death Row: Invisible Subjects of Gender Discrimination”
Death Penalty Focus
California has the largest female death row in the U.S., with 23 condemned women imprisoned at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Four women have been executed in the state since 1893.
Was Kevin Cooper Framed for Murder?
New York Times
The Death Penalty and California: 2017 in Review
Death Penalty Focus
It’s easy to forget that California is a state with the death penalty on its books, and it’s not hard to see why. The state has not executed anyone in 12 years as January 2018. Nevertheless, California has sentenced nearly 1,000 people to death since the current system was adopted in 1978. There have been 13 executions in that time, and we currently house more people under sentences of death than any other jurisdiction in the Western Hemisphere.
No Justice
US News and World Report
The Supreme Court Should Stop This Georgia Execution
Brennan Center for Justice
This Wasn't Just a Primary Victory. This Was a Revolution - Advances Movement for Racial and Criminal Justice
Philly.com / Philadelphia Daily News
Larry Krasner's victory for Philadelphia District Attorney is huge! Krasner has been the main defense attorney for #BlackLivesMatter and Occupy and has freed 80 prisoners on wrongful conviction charges. He ran to end stop-and-frisk, end cash bail, and treat drug law violators via the public health rather than criminal justice system. A huge victory for the movements against police brutality and mass incarceration - for progressive and racial justice movements nationwide.
Gorsuch's First Vote Hastens an Arkansas Execution
Mother Jones
Arkansas Judge Moves to Block Executions
New York Times
Four companies have publicly raised concerns about how the Arkansas Department of Correction came to stockpile the drugs for its lethal injection cocktail — midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride — but only the McKesson Corporation, the drug distributor that ranks fifth on the Fortune 500 list of companies, made an explicit allegation of deception.
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