On April 12, 2024, Judge Arturo Nelson, a district judge who presided over Melissa Lucio’s capital murder case, recommended to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that her conviction be overturned. The judge’s recommendation supports…
From left to right: Katie Painter, first place; Morgan Miles, second place; Krystia Ramirez, third place. Dozens of young adults ages 18-30 from all across the country entered poems in Catholic Mobilizing Network’s 2024 Justice…
The National Registry of Exonerations recently released its 2023 Annual Report. The organization, which is a project of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at University of California Irvine, the University of Michigan Law…
Louisiana has not executed any individual since 2010. Under the leadership of newly-elected Governor Jeff Landry, that might change. This week the Louisiana legislature met for a special session to consider over a dozen bills…
Anthony Ray Hinton, author of The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice, spent 30 years on death row in Alabama for a crime he did not commit. Through the tireless efforts…
Late in the evening on January 25, 2024, Alabama executed Kenneth “Kenny” Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first known execution using this method. Kenny was restrained to a gurney with an industrial-grade…
On January 25, Alabama plans to execute Kenneth “Kenny” Eugene Smith using the untested execution method of nitrogen hypoxia. Nitrogen hypoxia is a process in which an individual is fitted with a mask and forced…
January 3, 2024 | The United Nations shared in a press release that a group of experts who volunteer their skills to advise the UN Human Rights Council on specific issues across the world were “alarmed”…
December 1, 2023 | A new report by the Death Penalty Information Center demonstrates that the United States continues to shift away from the death penalty in 2023. Read the full report here. Majority of…
In January 2024, Alabama will try to execute Kenneth “Kenny” Eugene Smith for a second time. The state’s first attempt failed after corrections officials spent hours working unsuccessfully to set an intravenous line for his…
Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN) recently wrapped up its “Next Gen for Justice” Catholic College Speaking Tours. This series of events, which took place at universities in states that are highly significant to the death penalty…
Earlier this year there was hope that Louisiana would seize an opportunity to commute nearly its entire death row, after 56 of the 57 of those imprisoned on death row filed applications for clemency en…
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