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Conservative activists from a dozen states discussed the growing movement of conservatives and Republican state legislators who believe the death penalty violates the basic tenets of their beliefs. October 28, 2019, CCATDP released a Conservative Statement of Support to End the Death Penalty signed by more than 250 politically active ...
The 2024 presidential election leaves people opposed to the death penalty in a quandary. The American people have returned to the White House someone who wants to expand the uses of capital ...
The anti-death penalty movement began to pick up pace in the 1830s and many Americans called for abolition of the death penalty. Anti-death penalty sentiment rose as a result of the Jacksonian era, which condemned gallows and advocated for better treatment of orphans, criminals, poor people, and the mentally ill.
Republicans on Tuesday hope to push the death penalty debate back to the forefront. "The status quo is unacceptable," Yost said. Ohio currently has 118 inmates on death row, according to state ...
In several others, the death penalty is still on the books but it has not been used in decades, including Kansas, which saw its last execution in the 1960s. Eight states have executed people this ...
Official party platforms have consistently argued that the death penalty is an effective deterrent to crime and ensures safer neighborhoods, citing the rising crime rates in recent decades. Republicans do not view capital punishment as cruel and unusual punishment nor unconstitutional, therefore opposing any attempts at criminal justice reform ...
Three Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion advocates in Oklahoma on Wednesday called for a moratorium on the death penalty there at a time when the state has been speeding up the pace of executions.
Ohio Republicans pitch new death penalty method. In a statement, Yost’s office said, “With this procedure, a condemned inmate breathes only nitrogen, leading to oxygen deprivation, which ...