“Recommended this week” features highlights from the past week in news about the death penalty, crime survivors, and trauma-informed responses to crime. Supreme Court To Hear Cases Challenging Two Texas Death Sentences, Buzzfeed The high court agrees to hear the death penalty cases of Duane Buck and Bobby James Moore. After nearly 40 years, murder charges dropped against… Continue reading Recommended this week
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U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Pennsylvania death row inmate Terrance Williams
In a 5-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice should have recused himself in the case of Terrance Williams. The judge in question, Justice Ronald Castille had been the District Attorney of Philadelphia and had participated in Williams’ original death penalty original death penalty trial. The following is a press… Continue reading U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Pennsylvania death row inmate Terrance Williams
Meet the red-state conservatives fighting to abolish the death penalty
In college, Senator Colby Coash celebrated at a tailgate party outside of a prison during an execution. Now he’s part of the growing conservative movement to end the death penalty in the United States – a movement that EJUSA’s Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty has helped spawn. Read The Washington Post’s in-depth article about… Continue reading Meet the red-state conservatives fighting to abolish the death penalty
Ta-Nehisi Coates on a possible death sentence in Charleston church
In June 2015, Dylann Roof allegedly killed nine African Americans in a mass shooting in a black church in Charleston last year. The families of the victims responded to the tragedy with powerful messages of forgiveness. Now, the DOJ has declared it wants to execute Roof for the crime, even though his death by lethal… Continue reading Ta-Nehisi Coates on a possible death sentence in Charleston church
Evangelical activist Shane Claiborne shares his support for death penalty repeal in new book
Is anyone beyond redemption? What does true justice look like? Does God support capital punishment? These are a few of the questions raised in a new book, Executing Grace, by Shane Claiborne. The book was released yesterday and is available at your local (or online) bookstore. Claiborne is a prominent Christian speaker, activist, and… Continue reading Evangelical activist Shane Claiborne shares his support for death penalty repeal in new book
Death penalty chaos around the country
Nevada just became the ninth death penalty state to go a decade or more without an execution. Add those nine to the 19 states without capital punishment, and you have 28 states that have abandoned executions in either law or practice. And in the remaining states? The death penalty is in complete chaos. Florida’s death… Continue reading Death penalty chaos around the country
U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Duane Buck’s racial bias death penalty case
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear arguments in Buck v. Stephens, a death penalty case raising extraordinary issues of racial bias. Duane Buck is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s ruling that his case did not warrant re-consideration, despite his claim that his lawyer was constitutionally ineffective for knowingly… Continue reading U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Duane Buck’s racial bias death penalty case
Meet the red-state conservatives fighting to abolish the death penalty
Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty was featured in the Sunday edition of the Washington Post. The article’s author, Marin Cogan, interviewed CCATDP’s Heather Beaudoin and myself, and Cogan highlighted why conservatives are increasingly changing their views on the death penalty. She wrote, Beaudoin reaches out to evangelical and other faith-based leaders and gets them… Continue reading Meet the red-state conservatives fighting to abolish the death penalty
Recommended this week
“Recommended this week” features highlights from the past week in news about the death penalty, crime survivors, and trauma-informed responses to crime. Meet the red-state conservatives fighting to abolish the death penalty, The Washington Post In college, Senator Colby Coash celebrated at a tailgate party outside of a prison during an execution. Now he’s part of the growing… Continue reading Recommended this week
CCATDP’s Marc Hyden on Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler
Last week, I was a guest on Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler to discuss Oklahoma’s damning grand jury report on their lethal injection scandal and Florida’s unconstitutional death penalty. You can watch the segment below: Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (CCATDP), a project of Equal Justice USA, is a network of political and social… Continue reading CCATDP’s Marc Hyden on Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler