Death Penalty

William Silvia is gone. Three more warrants are signed. A conservative Republican wants to end the death penalty in Pennsylvania. And fifty years after Gregg v. Georgia, the conversation is finally changing. Florida Keeps Executing. The Rest of the Country Is Asking Why. ⚖️ SAN Death Penalty Report Florida Keeps Executing.The Rest of the Country

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On July 28, 2026, the State of Florida executed two men on the same gurney, in the same room, by the same execution team, separated by six hours. James Duckett died at noon. Dominick Occhicone died that evening. The day became the first double execution in Florida in more than 60 years, carried out by

On the night of July 14, 2026, the State of Florida executed Dennis Sochor. He was 74 years old. He was a United States Army veteran. He had spent forty years on death row, which means he had spent the substantial majority of his adult life inside Florida State Prison, waiting to find out whether

Two things happened in the same week that together capture everything complicated and urgent about the state of capital punishment in America in 2026. In Columbus, Ohio, Republican Governor Mike DeWine stood before reporters, brought out charts and graphs, and announced that he now believes the death penalty should be abolished. He is 79 years

The death penalty has long been defended by its supporters as the ultimate expression of justice, accountability, and public safety. Yet across the United States, recent developments are forcing a new and uncomfortable national conversation about whether capital punishment can ever truly meet those standards. In recent weeks alone, Americans have witnessed a halted execution

There are moments when the death penalty stops feeling like an abstract political argument and instead becomes something brutally immediate, deeply human, and profoundly unsettling. Not because people suddenly forget the horrific crimes at the center of a case, but because the mechanics of state execution expose uncomfortable realities about power, certainty, constitutional integrity, and

At a time when conversations surrounding justice, incarceration, state power, and human rights continue intensifying across the United States, one of the nation’s longest-running abolitionist gatherings is preparing to once again bring together advocates, faith leaders, artists, legal reformers, exonerees, organizers, and families united around a shared belief that the death penalty remains one of

The international movement to end capital punishment has entered a decisive new phase, driven by a convergence of moral leadership, legal scrutiny, and mounting evidence of systemic failure. In a powerful and timely intervention, Pope Leo IV issued a video message reaffirming the Catholic Church’s unequivocal opposition to the death penalty, offering explicit support to

In a development that signals a consequential shift in the national conversation around criminal justice and human rights, Pennsylvania has taken a decisive step toward potentially abolishing the death penalty. With a narrow but impactful 14–12 vote, the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee advanced two parallel pieces of legislation—HB 99 and HB 888—bringing the issue out