Today in Chicago History: Illinois abolishes the death penalty Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 9, according to the Tribune’s archives.

Today in Chicago History: Illinois abolishes the death penalty

Missouri Man Wanted DNA Test to Prove Innocence. Then he was Executed. A man on death row wanted DNA on evidence in his case tested. He was executed before the court made a ruling.

The death penalty is a national shame and a scourge.

Alabama governor grants clemency to death row inmate who was accomplice to murder, sparing him from execution this week | CNN The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from execution on Thursday.

Alabama governor grants clemency to death row inmate Sonny Burton who was accomplice to murder, sparing him from execution this week: www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/u...

House committee overwhelmingly rejects bills to bring back capital punishment The bills aim to restore and broaden the use of capital punishment in New Hampshire, seven years after its repeal

New Hampshire rejects bills to bring back capital punishment: www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

There was a surge in executions in 2025. Here’s how the Supreme Court responded. In 2025, the United States saw a surge in executions after a period of decline. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 47 people were put to death in 11 […]

There was a surge in executions in 2025. Here’s how the Supreme Court responded. www.scotusblog.com/2026/02/ther...

Alabama man faces execution despite not pulling the trigger in auto store customer's death Charles "Sonny" Burton faces execution in Alabama for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot, even though Burton did not fire the gun or witness the killing.

Alabama man faces execution despite not pulling the trigger in auto store customer's death. #deathpenalty www.wbaltv.com/article/alab...

Hearings continue on bills that would reinstate death penalty in New Hampshire Opponents of the death penalty turned out in big numbers in Concord again Thursday to speak against legislation to bring capital punishment back to New Hampshire.

Hearings continue on bills that would reinstate death penalty in New Hampshire.

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Homeland Security & @DHSgov X.com Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position. A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity. @TriciaOhio

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.

Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases Maricopa County prosecutors have frequently pursued the death penalty, but just 13% of cases ended in a death sentence, ProPublica and ABC15 Arizona found. Experts say the numbers raise questions abou...

Maricopa County prosecutors have frequently pursued the death penalty, but just 13% of cases ended in a death sentence, ProPublica and ABC15 Arizona found. Experts say the numbers raise questions about the office’s decision-making. www.propublica.org/article/mari...

US executions surged in 2025 to highest level in 16 years Forty-seven men killed by states operating death penalty – almost double last year’s number

In 2025, forty-seven men killed by states operating death penalty – almost double last year’s number.

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Bill could leave future of death penalty in the hands of Alabama voters.

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Saudi Arabia: Further Information: Essam Ahmed Executed After Grossly Unfair Trial 22 December 2025 | Index Number: MDE 23/0585/2025

Saudi Arabia: Further Information: Essam Ahmed Executed After Grossly Unfair Trial

In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions As the state keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.

An Alabama prison guard who left incarcerated people unsupervised in outdoor cages for hours was suspended for three days.

But he was still allowed to participate in executions as part of the team of officers who administer the death penalty:

Supreme Court mulls intellectual disability limits in death penalty cases: thehill.com/regulation/c...

Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.

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Leopold I, Grand Duke of Tuscany (later Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor), abolished the death penalty throughout his realm in 1786, making it the first country in modern history to do so.

239 years ago, on the 30th of November 1786, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany became the first modern state to abolish the death penalty. Grand Duke Leopold I, who was influenced in the decision by the book 'On Crimes and Punishments', would later become Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. #otd #history 🗃️

This is one of many reasons I can never support the death penalty

Singapore executes three men for drug offences over two days.

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South Carolina Man Is Executed By Firing Squad For 2004 Killings He is the seventh person put to death by South Carolina in 14 months after the state had a 13-year pause in executions when it couldn’t obtain lethal injection drugs.

South Carolina Man Is Executed By Firing Squad For 2004 Killings.
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Judge Failed to Disclose Personal Ties to Prosecutor in Two Death Row Cases Veteran prosecutor Fern Smith convicted both Tremane Wood and Richard Glossip. She calls a judge in both cases a friend.

Eye-popping reporting from my better half on systemic misconduct in two Oklahoma death penalty cases. Despite that (and against the recommendation of the OK clemency board), the condemned in one case will be executed today. The state has vowed to re-try the other.

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Forgotten Service, Lasting Wounds: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center **Executive Summary** - Though the Supreme Court has rec­og­nized the impor­tance of mil­i­tary ser­vice in cap­i­tal mit­i­ga­tion, the legal...

Veterans are overrepresented on death row across the United States. The Death Penalty Information Center's new report explores the cases of veterans sentenced to death and the injustices they face in the criminal legal system.

Last year the UN member states voted on a moratorium to end the death penalty. The green countries want to abolish the death penalty, the red countries want to keep it. Russia voting against the death penalty is a teeny bit funny. HT @maroni_editor

Pro-Life, Anti-Death Penalty Nan Tolson is the face of the conservative movement against capital punishment in Texas.

Yesterday: "The death penalty is extremely fiscally irresponsible. It costs more to sentence someone to death and execute them than to sentence them to life in prison without parole. It’s also an ineffective deterrent to violent crime."

Tremane Wood Receives Last-Minute Clemency, Sparing Him From Execution.
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Sotomayor says GOP-appointed Supreme Court wing ‘abandons its duty’ in death penalty case The Democratic appointees dissented from the majority’s refusal to halt the execution of Charles Crawford, who, they said, raised an important issue.

Sotomayor says GOP-appointed Supreme Court wing ‘abandons its duty’ in death penalty case. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Anti-death penalty protesters walk 30 miles across Missouri after governor denies man clemency A group is walking across Central Missouri to send a message about the death penalty.

Anti-death penalty protesters walk 30 miles across Missouri after governor denies man clemency. www.ky3.com/2025/10/13/a...

Despite everything else going on, France last night honoured Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who ended the death penalty in 🇫🇷 in 1981. He entered the Panthéon in a moving moment of national tribute that the French do so well

Graphic reading "Black adults compromise 14% of our nation's population but they account 41% of people currently on death row." Hands holding through jail cells.

Racism is embedded in the death penalty.

This World Against the Death Penalty Day and every other day of the year, we’re calling on our elected officials to work toward an end to capital punishment once and for all.

Abolish The Death Penalty Now Capital punishment is a moral stain on our nation: Add your name to the growing calls to abolish the death penalty now.

We must end the death penalty, once and for all.

On this World Day Against the Death Penalty, add your name to the growing number of people calling for an end to capital punishment.

Missouri man who maintains innocence set to be executed for killing state trooper Lance Shockley was condemned for killing Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. in March 2005.

Missouri man who maintains innocence set to be executed for killing state trooper. www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...