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PRESS RELEASES (in PDF)
08/23/2023: 2024 Candidates Asked to Sign Death Penalty Action Pledge to State Their Positions
07/21/2023: Billboard Campaign Urges AG To Reinvestigate Case
07/20/2023: Groups to Deliver Petitions, Hold Prayer Vigils Opposing Resumption of Alabama Executions
07/19/2023: Executions Set to Resume in Oklahoma Following Six-Month Hiatus
06/29/2023: 51st Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia Comes As U.S. Supreme Court Disregards Innocence as “Relevant.”
06/28/2023: Death Row Survivor Raising $100K For Operation to Walk Again
06/27/2023: Jews & Allies Say "NO" to the Angel of Death
06/25/2023: Follow Death Penalty Action Next Seven Days
06/23/2023: Oklahoma Prisoner Anthony Sanchez Rejects Clemency Process
06/14/2023: Death Penalty Action Joins With Broccoli City and Action Network - Announce New Community Campaign
05/25/2023: Oklahoma Investigator To Detail Evidence of Innocence of Anthony Sanchez
05/19/2023: Family of Rodney Reed to Demand Justice After 25 Years of Wrongful Incarceration on Death Row
04/15/2023: Man Next in Line to Be Executed in Texas Files Clemency Application
03/08/2023: Spiritual Advisor Pleads For Arthur Brown’s Life
01/11/2023: Oklahoma Department of Corrections Backs Down on Jeff Hood Complaint
01/09/2023: Scott Eizember & Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood Sue OK Department of Corrections for Violation of Religious Freedom
01/02/2023: Hundreds of Organizations Urge President, AG to Halt Federal & Military Death Penalty
12/12/2022: US Marine Veteran to be Executed in Mississippi
11/19/2022: Family of Innocent/Former Death-Sentenced Ohio Prisoner Kevin Keith to Deliver Petitions to Governor DeWine
10/07/2022: Family of Rodney Reed to Attend Prayer Rally Prior to US Supreme Court Argument
08/16/2022: National Death Penalty Opponents To Visit Little Rock
08/03/2022: Kosoul Chanthakoummane Family/Supporters Announce Press Conference to Halt Execution
06/29/2022: 50th Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia Comes As Executions on the Rise
06/13/2022: Death Penalty Protesters Join #ShutDownSCOTUS Action in DC
04/17/2022: Tennessee Executions Resume This Week
04/12/2022: Melissa Lucio Family Members and Supporters to Attend Hearing
1/26/2022: "Pick Your Poison," States Demand of Mentally Challenged Prisoners
1/12/2022: MLK Day Death Penalty Protests in DC/45th Anniversary of First Execution
11/18/2021: Will Oklahoma Kill An Innocent Man Today?
05/18/2021: Texas May Resume Executions After Longest Hiatus in 40 Years
05/07/2021: Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act of 2021 Becomes Bi-Partisan
02/26/2021: Death Penalty Action Announces Second Phase of 100 Day Push to Abolish Federal Death Penalty
01/08/2021: Death Penalty Action Delivers Over 500,000+ Signatures
01/03/2021: Regarding Actions and Protests to Scheduled Federal Executions
12/23/2020: Groups Petition Acting U.S. Attorney General Rosen to Rescind Execution Warrants (PDF)
12/18/2020: Second Positive Covid-19 Case of Federal Prisoners with Pending Execution Dates (PDF)
12/04/2020: Virtual Human Rights Conference Focuses on Trump’s Federal Execution Spree
11/24/2020: Execution by Firing Squad “Just Ridiculous” (PDF)
11/19/2020: Orlando Hall federal execution protests - "Death Penalty Abolitionists Stream Live Protests Nationwide" (PDF)
Articles on federal executions by The Intercept, written by Liliana Segura, can found here.
Other articles on federal executions:
Washington Post: Biden's silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray (6/18/21)
Associated Press: 2 South Carolina executions halted until firing squad formed (6/16/21)
Mother Jones: Trump Went on an Execution Spree. Biden Can Make Sure That Doesn’t Happen Again (6/11/21)
Indiana Public Media: Michigan GOP Congressman Backs Bill To Prohibit Federal Death Penalty (5/7/2021)
Newsweek: Joe Biden, Who Vowed to Abolish Executions, Urged to Commute Death Row Sentences (3/4/21)
Newsweek: Donald Trump Executioners May Have Misled Courts, Sparking Calls for Investigation (2/23/2021)
Associated Press: Big challenge: Biden is pressed to end federal death penalty (2/7/2021)
Indiana Public Radio: Anti-Death Penalty Group Petitions Attorney General To Halt Federal Executions At Terre Haute (12/24/2020)
Newsweek: Brandon Bernard Execution Protesters to Tape off DOJ Offices As Crime Scene (12/10/2020)
Newsweek: Trump Has Made Firing Squad, Poison Gas Executions Possible—But Will They Actually Happen? (12/7/2020)
Associated Press: Trump ratchets up pace of executions before Biden inaugural (12/7/2020)
Newsweek: Thousands Call on Trump to Cancel Remaining Scheduled Federal Executions (11/18/2020)
Washington Post: Justice Department schedules three more federal executions (11/20/2020)
Reuters: U.S. sets September execution dates for two federal inmates
News and Tribune: The Indiana State Police agrees not to block execution protesters: Death Penalty Action calls for congressional investigation into recent executions, Trump Administration’s politicization of death penalty
Tribune Star: Anti-death penalty group: Email proves executions a 'political stunt'
Tribune Star: Flashpoint: Trump is playing politics with the death penalty
Misc. News:
Austin Chronicle: Death Watch: Father Forgave, Texas Doesn’t (8/12/22)
Texas Observer: Upcoming Execution Based on Discredited Forensic Science (8/10/22)
The Intercept: Rush to Judgment: Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened? (3/5/22)
Moment Magazine: Cantor Leads Jewish Movement to Abolish Death Penalty (7/6/21)
Arkansas Coverage in 2017:
4/26/2017: How a Daughter’s Search for Her Biological Father Led Her to an Execution in Arkansas (The Intercept)
4/22/2017: Exonerated Death Row Inmates Documentary Shown in Northwest Arkansas