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Execution Reinstated for Innocent-Claiming Missouri Man after Court Vacates Stay

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|Date: May 19, 2020
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Execution Reinstated for Innocent-Claiming Missouri Man after Court Vacates Stay

By Linh Nguyen MISSOURI -- Missouri is maintaining their scheduled execution of 64-year-old Walter Barton ...

By Linh Nguyen MISSOURI -- Missouri is maintaining their scheduled execution of 64-year-old Walter Barton for today after his stay of execution petition, granted on May 5, 2020, was vacated two days a ...

May 19, 2020
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Missouri to Carry Out First Execution Since COVID-19 on Man Despite New Evidence of Innocence

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|Date: May 15, 2020
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Missouri to Carry Out First Execution Since COVID-19 on Man Despite New Evidence of Innocence

By Linh Nguyen MISSOURI -- Despite the fact that many states postponed lethal injections amid the coronav ...

By Linh Nguyen MISSOURI -- Despite the fact that many states postponed lethal injections amid the coronavirus pandemic, Missouri is maintaining their scheduled execution of 64-year-old Walter Barton o ...

May 15, 2020
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Death Penalty of Defendant in 2001 Homicides of Three Teenage Boys Upheld by Supreme Court of California

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|Date: May 08, 2020
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Death Penalty of Defendant in 2001 Homicides of Three Teenage Boys Upheld by Supreme Court of California

The justices of the Supreme Court of California reviewed a direct appeal from the appellant, Alfred Flore ...

The justices of the Supreme Court of California reviewed a direct appeal from the appellant, Alfred Flores, III, who was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, and up ...

May 08, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 64 – Joe Gonzales, Bexar County DA

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|Date: April 29, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 64 – Joe Gonzales, Bexar County DA

Bexar County, Texas, Criminal District Attorney Joe Gonzales took office in January of 2019 on a pledge t ...

Bexar County, Texas, Criminal District Attorney Joe Gonzales took office in January of 2019 on a pledge to reform the office, restore public confidence, and make the office more accountable to the vot ...

April 29, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 63 – Jodie Sinclair and Her Book ‘Love Behind Bars’

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 24, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 63 – Jodie Sinclair and Her Book ‘Love Behind Bars’

In 1981, Jodie Sinclair was a journalist visiting the Angola Prison in Louisiana to do a story on the new ...

In 1981, Jodie Sinclair was a journalist visiting the Angola Prison in Louisiana to do a story on the newly-reinstated death penalty. She met Billy Sinclair, who had been sentenced to death for his ro ...

April 24, 2020
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Healthcare Workers and Experts Ask for Lethal Injection Drugs to Care for COVID-19 Patients

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|Date: April 13, 2020
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Healthcare Workers and Experts Ask for Lethal Injection Drugs to Care for COVID-19 Patients

By Linh Nguyen In an open letter to death penalty states, healthcare workers and medical experts across t ...

By Linh Nguyen In an open letter to death penalty states, healthcare workers and medical experts across the country asked death penalty states to surrender execution drugs to doctors who need the seda ...

April 13, 2020
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The Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas Man’s Appeal Claiming Biased Trial

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|Date: April 09, 2020
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The Supreme Court Declines to Hear Texas Man’s Appeal Claiming Biased Trial

By Juan Garcia Urrutia DALLAS, Texas - On April 6, the Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari to one o ...

By Juan Garcia Urrutia DALLAS, Texas - On April 6, the Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari to one of the Texas Seven who claims an unfair trial after discovering that the judge who sentenced him ...

April 09, 2020
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California Supreme Court Affirms LA Court Decision in Capital Case

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|Date: April 03, 2020
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California Supreme Court Affirms LA Court Decision in Capital Case

By Nancy Martinez and Juan Garcia Urrutia LOS ANGELES - On April 2, 2020, the Supreme Court of California ...

By Nancy Martinez and Juan Garcia Urrutia LOS ANGELES - On April 2, 2020, the Supreme Court of California affirmed the decision of the trial court in the case against James Michael Fayed. The trial co ...

April 03, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 53 – Boulder DA Michael Dougherty

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|Date: March 27, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 53 – Boulder DA Michael Dougherty

Michael Dougherty came to Boulder from Manhattan and worked as a deputy in the DA's office for nearly 20 ...

Michael Dougherty came to Boulder from Manhattan and worked as a deputy in the DA's office for nearly 20 years before being appointed in 2018 to replace the long time prosecutor. He then won on his ow ...

March 27, 2020
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Racial Justice Act Introduced in Legislature to End Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 12, 2020
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Racial Justice Act Introduced in Legislature to End Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

Assemblymember Ash Kalra officially introduced the California Racial Justice Act, a landmark bill that ad ...

Assemblymember Ash Kalra officially introduced the California Racial Justice Act, a landmark bill that addresses racial discrimination in criminal sentencing and convictions. The action was part of t ...

March 12, 2020
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Commentary: Nathaniel Woods Executed Despite Pleas for the Alabama Governor to Stop the Execution

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: March 07, 2020
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Commentary: Nathaniel Woods Executed Despite Pleas for the Alabama Governor to Stop the Execution

By Danielle Silva Nathaniel Woods, 44, was executed on March 5, 2020, by lethal injection despite multipl ...

By Danielle Silva Nathaniel Woods, 44, was executed on March 5, 2020, by lethal injection despite multiple individuals, including the son of Martin Luther King, Jr., and a victim’s relative, requestin ...

March 07, 2020
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Addressing Incarceration, Extreme Sentencing, and Structural Racism in Our Criminal Legal System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 04, 2020
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Addressing Incarceration, Extreme Sentencing, and Structural Racism in Our Criminal Legal System

Last week the Justice Collaborative held an all-day seminar, the Justice Guarantee Event in San Francisco ...

Last week the Justice Collaborative held an all-day seminar, the Justice Guarantee Event in San Francisco. At the event, SF DA Chesa Boudin made his big announcement, as additional activists, scholar ...

March 04, 2020
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Colorado House of Representatives Passes Death Penalty Repeal, Bill Awaits Governor’s Signature

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|Date: March 03, 2020
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Colorado House of Representatives Passes Death Penalty Repeal, Bill Awaits Governor’s Signature

By Julia Martinez The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal the death penalty through ...

By Julia Martinez The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal the death penalty through a formal vote around 4 am and is now awaiting a signature from Democratic Colorado governor Ja ...

March 03, 2020
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“Do Not Kill in My Name” – How Colorado Finally Repealed the Death Penalty

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 29, 2020
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“Do Not Kill in My Name” – How Colorado Finally Repealed the Death Penalty

Colorado is about to become the 22nd state in the nation to repeal the death penalty. Its path to get the ...

Colorado is about to become the 22nd state in the nation to repeal the death penalty. Its path to get there highlights the power of community-led organizing. By Denise Maes and Helen Griffiths For mor ...

February 29, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Gascón Earns a Big Endorsement from LA Times

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 24, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Gascón Earns a Big Endorsement from LA Times

We are just about a week out from the primary election and, aside from the presidential race, one of the ...

We are just about a week out from the primary election and, aside from the presidential race, one of the big races we are following is the Los Angeles District Attorney race. We were down in Los Ange ...

February 24, 2020
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Stone Introduces AB 2512: Intellectual Disabilities and Death Row

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|Date: February 22, 2020
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Stone Introduces AB 2512: Intellectual Disabilities and Death Row

(From Press Release - Assemblymember Stone) – Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay) has introduced A ...

(From Press Release - Assemblymember Stone) – Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay) has introduced Assembly Bill 2512, which will modernize California’s Statute prohibiting the execution of peopl ...

February 22, 2020
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Overturned Death Row Conviction of an LAPD Officer Killing in 1983

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|Date: February 19, 2020
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Overturned Death Row Conviction of an LAPD Officer Killing in 1983

By Nancy Martinez The Los Angeles Superior Court overturned the death row conviction of Kenneth Earl Gay ...

By Nancy Martinez The Los Angeles Superior Court overturned the death row conviction of Kenneth Earl Gay on the basis that Gay did not receive competent assistance during the initial trial. Kenneth Ea ...

February 19, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 43: Why Aramis Ayala Stepped Down over the Death Penalty

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 18, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 43: Why Aramis Ayala Stepped Down over the Death Penalty

In 2019, Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced she would not seek re-election for the position sh ...

In 2019, Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced she would not seek re-election for the position she held since 2016, serving as prosecutor in Orange and Osceola Counties in Florida. She told Ev ...

February 18, 2020
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Arkansas Cooperates with the Innocence Project and the ACLU to Conduct Testing for Ledell Lee’s Case

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|Date: February 04, 2020
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Arkansas Cooperates with the Innocence Project and the ACLU to Conduct Testing for Ledell Lee’s Case

By Coco Wang Officials in Jacksonville, Arkansas, agreed to the DNA and fingerprint testing for Ledell Le ...

By Coco Wang Officials in Jacksonville, Arkansas, agreed to the DNA and fingerprint testing for Ledell Lee's case after the Innocence Project, the ACLU, the law firm Hogan Lovells US LLP, and Little R ...

February 04, 2020
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Five Jurists Said Donnie Lance Deserved a New Sentence, Georgia Executed Him Anyway

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|Date: February 02, 2020
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Five Jurists Said Donnie Lance Deserved a New Sentence, Georgia Executed Him Anyway

Three Supreme Court justices and others said competent counsel could have saved his life. By Kyle C. Barr ...

Three Supreme Court justices and others said competent counsel could have saved his life. By Kyle C. Barry When jurors in Walton County, Georgia, decided that Donnie Cleveland Lance should die for the ...

February 02, 2020
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