Feeney’s Focus: Abolish the death penalty

Recently, it’s had a busy few weeks in the news. In Georgia ... will result in extreme pain and suffering. President Joe Biden campaigned in 2020 to seek a federal ban on the death penalty but did not ... Read More

Biden backed off a pledge to abolish the federal death penalty. That's left an opening for Trump

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Timing for an Abolish-the-Death-Penalty Measure

However, Democratic strategists don’t want to see the anti-death penalty amendment on the November ballot. Since abolishing the death penalty received a negative vote from the people as recently as ... Read More

It’s long past time for California to abolish the death penalty

But research doesn’t back that up. There is no evidence that abolishing the death penalty leads to increases in crime. One study found that among 11 countries that abolished the death penalty ... Read More

Billie Melissa: Abolishing the Death Penalty Through Storytelling

Currently, there are 2.2 ... on federal death row for 25 years with a case of innocence. Varshini: Hi Billie! I'm very excited to chat with you about your involvement in anti-death penalty work ... Read More

Cori Bush calls for death penalty to be abolished after Missouri executes Brian Dorsey

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) called for the death penalty to be abolished Tuesday after Missouri executed Brian Dorsey, a man who killed his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago. “There is no ... Read More

Ky. should abolish the death penalty

For many years ... to Abolish the Death Penalty. Frankfort piano technician Ben Griffith’s brother was brutally murdered in Missouri by a mass killer who was executed in 1997. Griffith advocates ... Read More

Complex appeals process delays federal executions

The last federal government execution occurred 34 years ago ... like the death penalty and would vote against it in a legislature. But, Reno says she is able to see that it is carried out ... Read More

Death penalty: Is it time to abolish it?

The Court then addressed the fifth and sixth issues simultaneously stating as follows:- "The power to order the execution of the death penalty, or to commute it to a term of years or a life ... Read More

Will Africa be the next continent to abolish the death penalty?

Such a move would see the nation join a string of African countries in ending capital punishment in recent years. Ghana abolished the death penalty for everything except high treason last year. Sierra ... Read More

New Hampshire House votes to abolish death penalty

(CNN)-- New Hampshire's state House of Representatives voted Wednesday to abolish the state's death penalty, which has not been carried out in nearly 70 years ... since 1982. See which states ... Read More