The Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors in Georgia violated the Constitution by striking every black prospective juror in a death penalty case against a black defendant. The vote was 7 to 1, with Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting. Almost three decades after Timothy Tyrone Foster was convicted as a teenager, his lawyers were able to obtain prosecutor …
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On March 7, NVCADP put on a screening of “The Exonerated,” a drama based on the real stories of six people who were sentenced to die for crimes they didn’t commit. Afterward we gave some information on the current state of capital punishment across the country and our reasons for supporting repeal. It was a …
The annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center finds that by almost every indicator, the use of the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in decades. Death sentences dropped by a third from last year and are at the lowest level since the Supreme Court halted the death penalty temporarily …
