A blog produced by the Oregon Justice Resource Center discussing the death penalty (capital punishment) in Oregon and in the Ninth Circuit.
By Jake Brooks, OJRC Research Assistant Last week the King County Bar Association passed a resolution that supports the repeal of Washington’s Death Penalty. PolitiFact verified Governor Kitzhaber’s statement that … Continue reading
Stories from the week 5/15 – 5/21 **The National Registry of Exonerations** How America’s death penalty murders innocents (5/21) Idaho update 5/21 (Idaho switches execution protocol to single-drug lethal injection) (5/21) Montana update … Continue reading
This week in capital punishment (4/29 – 5/5) OADP screening “Race to Execution” in Salem (5/5) Texas Lawman to High Court: DNA Testing “Frivolous” in Death Penalty Case (5/4) One minute changed his … Continue reading
This week in capital punishment (4/22-4/28) Conn. death penalty repeal to stir challenges (4/28) The Myth of Deterrence (4/28) Brown orders consideration of single-drug execution method (4/27) Oregon Commission on … Continue reading