- Georgia House Considers Bill to Provide Pretrial Hearings to Identify Capital Defendants with Intellectual Disabilityby Death Penalty Information Center on February 12, 2025 at 4:18 pm
For the third consecutive session, the Georgia House of Representatives is reviewing a bill seeking to provide better protections to capital defendants with intellectual disabilities. Currently, the state requires […]
- State Spotlight: California Death Row Shrinks Sharply in 2024, Driven by the Resentencing of At Least 45 People to Life Sentences or Lessby Death Penalty Information Center on February 11, 2025 at 9:29 pm
When California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on executions in 2019, he said that the state’s “death penalty system has been, by all measures, a failure.” He explained that the death penalty “has […]
- Focus on Race: Henderson Hill’s Legacy in the Death Penalty Movementby Death Penalty Information Center on February 10, 2025 at 6:52 pm
Henderson Hill has dedicated his career to placing race and the death penalty on trial. This month, the Death Penalty Information Center celebrates Black History Month by recognizing Mr. Hill’s ongoing contributions to the […]
- Judge Finds Race Plays a “Significant Role” in Death Sentences in Three North Carolina Countiesby Death Penalty Information Center on February 7, 2025 at 9:00 pm
On February 7, 2025, Johnston County Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons ruled “[r]ace was a significant factor” in both jury selection and the decision to impose death in the case of Hasson Bacote and granted relief for Mr. Bacote from […]
- State of Texas executes Steven Nelsonby Kristin on February 5, 2025 at 12:31 pm
Last night, February 5, 2025, the State of Texas executed Steven Nelson after the Supreme Court of the United States refused to intervene, denying his petition for a writ of certiorari
- TCADP February 2025 Newsletter: Texas could resume executions this monthby Kristin on February 3, 2025 at 10:20 pm
In this edition: Scheduled executions: Texas could resume executions this week TCADP 2025 Annual Conference: Join us on February 22, 2025, in Austin for a day of inspiration and advocacy
- TCADP January 2025 Newsletter: 52 lives spared last yearby Kristin on January 6, 2025 at 9:03 pm
In this edition: Scheduled executions: Four executions set in Texas from February to April TCADP 2025 Annual Conference: Join us on February 22, 2025, in Austin for a day of
- TCADP REPORT: Evidence of innocence and racial bias on stark display as Texas maintains historically low use of the death penaltyby Kristin on December 19, 2024 at 5:00 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETHURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2024 CONTACT: Kristin Houlé Cuellar, TCADP Executive Director512-552-5948 (cell)kristin@tcadp.org www.tcadp.org @TCADPdotORG #TXDP2024 TCADP REPORT: Evidence of innocence and racial bias […]
World Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
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- The Death Penalty Does Not Make Us Saferby Hedia Zaalouni on January 24, 2025 at 3:26 pm
Witness to Innocence Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on the Death Penalty, and Organizations from throughout the US and the World Sign-on in Solidarity President Trump’s Executive Order on the Death Penalty makes our criminal justice system […]
- Singapore: End harassment and intimidation of Transformative Justice Collectiveby Hedia Zaalouni on January 17, 2025 at 10:57 am
We, the undersigned 11 organizations, condemn in the strongest terms the latest restrictions imposed by the Singapore government on activists from the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a civil society group actively opposing the death penalty and […]
- 81st Ordinary Session of the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights: In- Person, Advocating Against the Death Penaltyby Hedia Zaalouni on January 7, 2025 at 11:08 am
The ACHPR (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights) held its 81st Public Ordinary Session in Banjul, The Gambia, from 17 October – 6 November 2024. State delegations, international and regional institutions, and NGOs gathered in Banjul, also home […]
- Zimbabwe Abolishes the Death Penaltyby Hedia Zaalouni on January 6, 2025 at 9:45 am
On 31 December 2024, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Death Penalty Abolition Bill into law. The Bill was passed by the Senate on 12 December 2024, over a year after the first bill for abolition had been introduced in parliament. Civil […]