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Liliana Segura | After Trump’s Execution Spree, Lingering Trauma And A Push for Abolition
Fonda Shen | Joe Biden: The First Abolitionist President
By Fonda Shen “Eliminate the death penalty. Over 160 individuals who’ve been sentenced to death in this country since 1973 have later been exonerated. Because we cannot ensure we get death penalty cases right every time, Biden will work to… Continue Reading
The Federal Executions | Some Final Words
Thirteen human beings were executed by former-President Donald Trump and the United States Department of Justice over the past six months, between July 14, 2020 and January 16, 2021. These are some of the final words of the men and… Continue Reading
Statement from Attorney Kelley Henry On the Pending Execution of Lisa Montgomery
Representative Adriano Espaillat Introduces the Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2021
Phillip Tomlin | 27 Years on Death Row
By Phillip Wayne Tomlin [Editor’s note: Phillip Wayne Tomlin is currently incarcerated at the Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest, Alabama. Mr. Tomlin spent 27 years on Alabama’s death row. Since then, he is serving a sentence of life imprisonment without… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt | Cruel and Unusual Punishment
By Bernard E. Harcourt The horror. Unimaginable. Intolerable. It is not just the scale of the inhumanity. Thirteen executions. Thirteen executions in less than six months. No, we had already become numb to the inevitability of the next execution… It… Continue Reading