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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Cambria County District Attorney Greg Neugebauer has announced that Pennsylvania will not be seeking the death penalty for convicted murderer Brian Giles. In June ...
A suburban Philadelphia woman charged with fatally shooting her parents and carving up their bodies with a chainsaw will not face the death penalty, prosecutors said Thursday. Verity Beck, 44 ...
Josh Shapiro called for the abolition of the death penalty, saying his views have evolved and that he now believes it is morally wrong. Pennsylvania governor says he won't sign any execution ...
As of August 2024, 96 people were on Pennsylvania's death row, all of whom are male. [16] 74% of inmates in Pennsylvania who are on death row have been on it for more than 10 years. [17] Some inmates who were facing death row have received re-trials or different sentencing strategies due to the 2015 moratorium. [18]
In 2005 in the Stanford Law Review, John J. Donohue III, a law professor at Yale with a doctorate in economics, and Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote that the death penalty "is applied so rarely that the number of homicides it can plausibly have caused or deterred cannot reliably be disentangled from the ...
Wark, a convicted rapist, abducted 17-year-old Hayley Dodd while she was walking near a property he owned in Badgingarra. A cold case review in 2015 led to evidence linking him to Dodd being found in Wark's car and he was convicted of killing her in 2018. He was given a second trial in 2021, but was convicted again. [5] Keith William Allan
Rusty equipment, huge workloads, and inconsistent training are among the concerns raised in a new report about the state’s patchwork coroner system.
Although Pennsylvania has the death penalty on the books, and has hundreds of convicted murderers on death row, the last time the state actually executed anyone was in 1999. Since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1978, only three people have been executed, and all three had waived their appeal rights.