January 31, 2013
Enslaved people who have just escaped from a Virginia plantation in 1862. (Library of Congress)
January 22, 2013
On January 8, 2013, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Ryan v. Gonzales that federal court review in death penalty cases should go forward...
January 17, 2013
Gallup polling shows an overall downward trend in recent years in the percentage of Americans who support capital punishment.
A recent Gallup Poll...
January 9, 2013
Studies examining lead exposure show that higher childhood blood lead levels are consistently associated with higher adult arrest rates for violent...
January 7, 2013
A divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on December 28, 2012, affirmed a lower court decision denying federal court review to...
January 3, 2013
Esaw Jackson in 2007. Photo by Jerry Ayres/The Birmingham News
A Jefferson County, Alabama, trial court sentenced Esaw Jackson to life...
December 20, 2012
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on December 14 unanimously reversed Lameco Turner's capital murder conviction and death sentence because the...
December 14, 2012
Cumberland County Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks vacated three death sentences under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act after...
December 12, 2012
On December 7, 2012, a Mobile County, Alabama, trial judge officially resentenced Bobby Tarver to life imprisonment without parole following a...
December 10, 2012
A Mobile County, Alabama, trial judge ruled that William Ziegler, who was sentenced to death in 2003, must be given a new trial because the...
