News & Commentary about Capital Punishment

The Capital Punishment Project works toward the repeal of the death penalty in the United States through strategic litigation, advocacy, public education, and training programs for capital defense teams.
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Jun 29, 2012
Forty Years after Furman: Still "Fastened to the Obsolete"

Jun 26, 2012
James Watson, Discoverer of DNA: Patenting Human Genes Is “Lunacyâ€

Jun 20, 2012
Feds Should Stop Forcing Death Penalty on Rhode Island

Jun 20, 2012
An Innocent Man’s Tortured Days on Texas’s Death Row

Jun 14, 2012
Spared From a Death Sentence Based On Falsehoods
Jun 14, 2012
Historic Racial Justice Act Faces Repeal

Jun 4, 2012
States Take Sizeable Steps in 2012 to End Overincarceration

May 15, 2012
New Proof of an Old Fear: Execution of the Innocent