Why new Attorney General Pam Bondi is going all in on the federal death penalty
Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...
Marin Independent Journal7d
Another View: It’s now clear that America’s death penalty is dying one generation at a time
The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...
Hosted on MSN1mon
'Vigorously pursue': Trump vows to ramp up executions after Biden commuted death sentences
"Biden, who opposes the death penalty, lowered each of the 37 sentences to life in prison without parole," the report stated. "He did not say why specifically he considered the original penalties ...
Salon1mon
How Merrick Garland stymied one of Donald Trump’s day one executive orders before leaving office
That is likely why, on January 15, five days before he left office, former Attorney General Merrick Garland rescinded the federal government’s death penalty protocol. He did so after a review by ...
World Socialist Web Site12d
Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda
The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death ... penalty to ramp up capital ...
Los Angeles Times28d
Opinion: It’s now clear that America’s death penalty is dying one generation at a time
The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards ...