May 7, 2013
On Friday, May 3, 2013, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Jeffery Riggs's capital murder conviction and death sentence and ordered a...
May 2, 2013
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley today signed into law a bipartisan measure that abolishes capital punishment in the State of Maryland, making it...
April 3, 2013
On Friday, March 29, 2013, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Kevin Towles's capital murder conviction and death sentence because the...
February 18, 2013
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday reversed the capital murder conviction and death sentence imposed on Lam Luong, finding that he was...
February 12, 2013
Ohio Supreme Court Justice William O’Neill explained in a recent dissent from an order setting an execution date for Jeffrey Wogenstahl that the "...
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...
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...
November 20, 2012
The United States Supreme Court granted the State of Michigan's petition for review on October 29, 2012, in McQuiggin v. Perkins to address what...
November 12, 2012
Death Row Unit, Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama
The Alabama Supreme Court has again reversed the case of Anthony Ray Hinton, who has spent more...
