Moratorium News Fall 2010

If you’ve been following death penalty news over the last year, you may have heard a lot about Cameron Todd Willingham.

Imagine a lunch counter where white people freely entered but black people were systematically turned away, being told it was because of their clothes, their hair, or the way they walked.

For every execution, there is a team of executioners.

Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 for setting the house fire that killed his three daughters, but a spate of forensic fire experts have said (both before and after the execution) there is n

New Yorkers for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NYADP) could have closed up shop years ago - when New York effectively ended the death penalty.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) gave evidence reports that were wrong in hundreds of cases, including three that ended in execution, according to a government-ordered review of