United States 2024
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on United States in 2024
JUNE 16, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Activists ask Biden to commute all federal death sentences
Trump could execute 40 prisoners in second term 'bloodbath'
JUNE 6, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Maryland. Kenneth J. Lighty gets 2 life sentences at resentencing
Federal sentence
MAY 28, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantánamo prosecutors accused of “outrageous” misconduct
For trying to use torture testimony
- MAY 20, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Death Row USA Fall 2023 Report
As of October 1, 2023: Continued Decline of Death Row Population
MAY 20, 2024United KingdomDEATH PENALTYMay 20, 2024 . United Kingdom. Assange wins right to challenge US extradition
MAY 8, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The Events in the Lives of Women on U.S. Death Row
Article of New Cardozo Law Review
MAY 7, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Under 1% of Catholics follow the Pope on abortion, death penalty, euthanasia
MAY 6, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Lethal drugs source of 2020/21 federal executions confirmed
Connecticut-based "Absolute Standards Inc."
MAY 6, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - America’s prison system is turning into a de facto nursing home
More and more older people are spending their dying years behind bars
MAY 2, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal prosecutors won't challenge Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeal case
Boston Marathon bomber
MAY 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - (Military). Sept. 11 Trial Plea Negotiations Still Underway at Guantánamo Bay
APRIL 22, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Prosecutor Says Sept. 11 Suspects Can Be Held Past War Crimes Sentence
- APRIL 16, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Binding Assurances that Julian Assange Will Not Face the Death Penalty
APRIL 2, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump calls for cop killers to get ‘mandatory’ death sentence
in wake of slain NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller
- MARCH 26, 2024United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UNITED KINGDOM - Assange can’t be extradited until US rules out death penalty
MARCH 25, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - The National Registry of Exonerations published its 2023 report
153 exonerations last year, 4 from death row
MARCH 11, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Top US Nitrogen Gas Producers Ban Use in Executions
MARCH 1, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYEUROPEAN UNION - Statement on the latest executions in US
FEBRUARY 29, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 61 botched executions since 1977
The last one yesterday, in Idaho, against Thomas Creech
FEBRUARY 24, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Suggests Children Should Watch Public Executions
JANUARY 23, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Dissent rises against looming ‘experimental’ execution of Kenneth Smith
JANUARY 12, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - U.S. to Seek Death for Payton Gendron
Biden thus contradicts his electoral promises
JANUARY 5, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - U.S. the Only G7 Country to Use Capital Punishment in 2023
United States and Japan are the only two retentionist countries among the Group of Seven leading industrialized democracies (G7). But Japan did not carry out any executions in 2023
JANUARY 3, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - UN experts alarmed for execution by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama
Execution of K.E. Smith set for January 25
JANUARY 2, 2024United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Warden approves spiritual plan for January execution of K.E. Smith