More- Death Penalty | Amnesty InternationalThe death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Amnesty opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception – regardless of who is accused, the nature or circumstances of the crime, guilt or innocence or method of execution.
- Homepage | Death Penalty Information CenterDPIC REPORTS. Dec 16, 2020. DPIC 2020 Year End Report: Death Penalty Hits Historic Lows Despite Federal Execution Spree. In a pandemic-affected year, a 22 nd state abolished the death penalty, 5 death-row prisoners were exonerated, new death sentences were the lowest in modern history, and executions declined despite a federal execution spree.
- Facts - Death Penalty FocusThe death penalty is the pinnacle of racism. The death penalty is so infected with racism and bias that a fair trial is not possible. “Since its inception, the American death penalty has been disproportionately applied, first, to enslaved Africans and African Americans, and, later to free Black people,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said.
- Death Penalty - Equal Justice InitiativeThe death penalty is far more expensive than a system in which life imprisonment without parole is the maximum sentence. Sophisticated studies at the state level show that the death penalty costs taxpayers more than life without parole. 38 Death Penalty Information Center, State Studies on Monetary Costs (2017).
- Upcoming Executions | Death Penalty Information CenterDied on death row of COVID-19 on November 19, 2020. EXECUTION DATE VACATED by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 24, 2020 because the new execution date was set while a stay of execution was in effect, in violation of the terms of federal execution regulations.
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