Search results for 'capital punishment' (30)
While fewer women than men are incarcerated, their numbers are rising faster and most often for non-violent offences. Experts warn of ‘global crisis’ as number of women in prison nears one million.
The ACLU have released a new report exposing how racism, human error, and systemic failures have made wrongful convictions an inevitable consequence of the death penalty system.
On the World Day Against the Death Penalty, US-based Catholic Mobilizing Network, explores the many positive abolition movements that have been made, despite an uptick in executions.
President Trump's administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in which predecessors decided against seeking capital punishment.
On March 26, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal permission to appeal a September 2024 denial of his latest petition to reverse his conviction.
South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi by firing squad on 11 April. Mahdi had been convicted and sentenced for the 2004 killing of an off-duty law enforcement officer, and others followed.
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