January 14, 2011
Leroy White
The State of Alabama today executed Leroy White over strong opposition from the family of the crime victim and in spite of the jury's...
January 14, 2011
This evening, minutes before the scheduled execution in Alabama of Leroy White, the United States Supreme Court issued a temporary stay of execution...
January 11, 2011
The state senate of Illinois today passed a bill that bans capital punishment. The bill was previously passed by the Illinois House and now will go...
January 3, 2011
The Alabama Supreme Court on December 30, 2010, ruled that Kenneth Billups was entitled to a new trial because his jury was unlawfully allowed to...
December 31, 2010
On December 30, 2010, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed Lamar Killingsworth's conviction and death sentence, ruling that his right to an impartial...
December 20, 2010
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on December 17, 2010, remanded the case of death row prisoner Demetrius Jackson because there was evidence that...
December 15, 2010
The United States Supreme Court on December 13, 2010, denied the State of Alabama's request for review of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals's...
December 10, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court has set an execution date of January 13, 2011, for death row prisoner Leroy White, even though his case still is pending in...
November 30, 2010
In a review of New York University law professor David Garland's book, Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition, former...
November 24, 2010
A national poll of 1500 registered voters shows a clear majority (61%) prefer a punishment other than the death penalty for murder. In recent years...
