After 50 Years, The Death Penalty Is Far More Broken Than We Knew | The Marshall Project

The racial disparities, the arbitrary outcomes, the endless waiting and the risk of executing the innocent persist.
— Read on www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/22/death-penalty-50th-gregg-georgia-executions

New Report Highlights the ‘Fatal Flaws’ Behind Wrongful Capital Convictions

The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death sentences.
— Read on www.texasobserver.org/aclu-report-death-penalty-exonerations/

See the ACLU report HERE

States have executed 30 people this year — already the highest annual total in more than a decade.
— Read on www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/13/trump-death-penalty-florida-louisiana

528, 531 (W.D. Okla. 1949) Oklahoma’s death penalty is at a crossroads. The projected increase in executions in Oklahoma comes while the death penalty is…
— Read on deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/dpic-reports/dpic-special-reports/deeply-rooted-how-racial-history-informs-oklahomas-death-penalty

Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty is a network of political and social conservatives who question the alignment of capital punishment with conservative principles and values.

We come to this issue for a variety of reasons:

Some of us believe that small government and the death penalty don’t go together, especially when we compare the high costs of capital punishment to life without possibility of release.
Some of us don’t trust the state to get it right. We already know that some innocent people have been sentenced to death, and for others it may already be too late.
Some of us are disturbed by the roller coaster for family members of murder victims, or wonder why we’re investing so much in a system that doesn’t keep us any safer than the alternatives.
Some of us believe that the death penalty contradicts our values about protecting life.
And for many other reasons…

“I felt like a virgin on my wedding night — eager to put this thing to use, not sure if it’ll hurt.”
— Read on www.themarshallproject.org/2016/10/06/how-a-phone-changed-my-life-on-death-row

California has spent $4 billion on the death penalty since it was reinstated in 1978. But its violent crime rate outpaces the national average, writes a leading conservative who welcomes the moratorium announced this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2019/03/14/death-penalty-another-failed-big-government-program-ca-conservative/