California hasn’t executed anyone since 2006, and while voters have supported keeping the death penalty, Gov. Gavin Newsom overrode them by imposing a moratorium in 2019. Legal battles have ...

Johnson was given the death penalty after being convicted in the 1996 double murder of a young man and his cousin in Reading, Pennsylvania. Johnson was sentenced to death the following year.

I t’s been 57 years since Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated for preaching a gospel of nonviolence, redemption, and mercy. Like me, he opposed the death penalty — not out of ...

Racism taints every stage of death penalty proceedings in California, as the state Supreme Court should acknowledge. It's present in other criminal sentences as well.

A 2020 report from the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center showed that people of color have been overrepresented on death rows in the U.S., and that killers of Black people were less likely ...

The death penalty is costly. “More than $4 million has been spent with the results being no death penalty sentences and zero executions.” Racial bias infects capital prosecutions. “The factors which ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on ...

An odd theme is cropping up in which death row inmates Gov. DeSantis chooses to execute next: Why are many of them ...

Hasson Bacote, a Black man from Johnston County, was sentenced to death in 2009. He is challenging his death sentence under the state's Racial Justice Act, arguing that race played a role in jury ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009. Hasson Bacote was among a group of 15 ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...