Webinar: "How Science Exposes the Death Penalty’s Deadly Flaws"
Death Penalty Focus webinar, "How Science Exposes the Death Penalty’s Deadly Flaws," featuring Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky. A renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Sapolsky is the author of "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst," a New York Times bestseller and LA Times Book Prize winner, as well as "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will." Don’t miss this eye-opening discussion on the science that challenges capital punishment!
Go to Libray of Webinars"How Science Exposes Death Penalty’s Deadly Flaws"
Join us Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at noon PT for "How Science Exposes the Death Penalty’s Deadly Flaws," a DPF webinar with Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Robert Sapolsky. Don’t miss this eye-opening discussion!
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While we’re on the subject ….
In his opinion piece in the Orlando Sentinel, “The twisted ‘justice’ of Tommy Zeigler’s half-century on death row,” Scott Maxwell...
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In Oklahoma, Richard Glossip will get a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled late last month that in...
Read MoreIdaho lawmakers pass a bill making sexual assault of a minor punishable by death; governor signs another bill making firing squad primary execution method.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill last Wednesday making the sexual abuse of a child under the age of...
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The California Committee on Revision of the Penal Code’s recommendation to eliminate the death penalty is so significant that, “ When the story is told about how the death penalty was abolished in California, the work of a little-known legislative committee will deserve an entire chapter,” DPF board member Stephen Rohde declares.
After Trump's rush of executions, President Biden and a Democratic Congress want to abolish the federal death penalty
Two prominent voices, one a former Democratic US senator, the other a former Republican-appointed US attorney, call on President Biden to commute all federal death sentences, writing that “the death penalty . . . is no longer the polarizing issue it once was.”
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Webinar: “Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection”
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I’m grateful to Death Penalty Focus and other organizations, religious and secular, that are faithfully keeping my hope alive. The arc of justice bends slowly — and can sometimes be deflected — but continues to bend toward justice… and mercy.
Chip Sharpe
DPF Supporter
Read MoreI believe nobody has the right to take anyone’s life no matter the crime.I believe in redemption & mercy and yes, re integration into society if at all possible.
Gerlind Kennedy
DPF Supporter
Read MoreI’m grateful to Death Penalty Focus and other organizations, religious and secular, that are faithfully keeping my hope alive. The arc of justice bends slowly — and can sometimes be deflected — but continues to bend toward justice… and mercy.
Chip Sharpe
DPF Supporter
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