#Campaign to End the Death Penalty RSS Skip to Navigation Home Campaign to End the Death Penalty Secondary links * About Us * Find a Speaker * Contact Us * Links * Search * 5 reasons to oppose the death penalty header image 0 header image 1 header image 2 header image 3 header image 4 header image 5 header image 6 header image 7 header image 8 header image 9 header image 10 header image 11 header image 12 header image 13 header image 14 header image 15 header image 16 header image 17 header image 18 header image 19 header image 20 header image 21 header image 22 header image 23 header image 24 header image 25 header image 26 header image 27 header image 28 header image 29 header image 30 header image 31 header image 32 header image 33 header image 34 header image 35 header image 36 header image 37 header image 38 header image 39 header image 40 header image 41 header image 42 header image 43 header image 44 header image 45 header image 46 header image 47 header image 48 header image 49 header image 50 header image 51 header image 52 header image 53 header image 54 header image 55 header image 56 header image 57 header image 58 header image 59 header image 60 header image 61 header image 62 header image 63 header image 64 header image 65 header image 66 header image 67 header image 68 header image 69 header image 70 header image 71 header image 72 Death penalty dysfunction in 2015 Crosses mark the graves of inmates in Huntsville, Texas, April 23, 1997. About 1,300 people from the Texas prison system are buried here, among them 200 who died on death row. By: Liliana Segura The Intercept ON DECEMBER 8, the state of Georgia carried out its fifth and final execution of the year, killing 47-year-old Brian Keith Terrell by lethal injection for a 1992 murder. It was a fight over money, the state said. Terrell forged checks belonging to an elderly family friend, then shot the man after he was found out. * Read more Supreme Court Strikes Down Florida's Death Penalty System By: Nina Totenberg NPR The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Florida's death sentencing system as unconstitutional on Tuesday, casting doubt on the status of all the state's death sentences. Florida ranks second in the nation in the number of death row inmates, with 390 men and women currently awaiting execution. * Read more Defense: New evidence points to victim’s fiance in Reed case Rodney Reed's parents By: Jillian Beck The Austin-American Statesman Friday, October 30, 2015 Lawyers for a man convicted and sentenced to death for a 1996 Bastrop County murder filed a motion in district court this month saying a previously undisclosed police investigation points to the victim’s fiance as the perpetrator. Rodney Reed was convicted and sentenced to death in 1998 for the rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Less than two weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death this year, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed his execution based on a new appeal Reed’s attorneys filed in February. * Read more From behind death row's walls Mumia Abu-Jamal By: Lily Hughes Socialist Worker Friday, November 27, 2015 Lily Hughes, a leading member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, reviews a new collection of essays by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. * Read more Syndicate content Primary links * Home * Get the Facts * Get Involved * Make a Donation * Join our Email List * Justice For Rodney Reed Blog Death Penalty News * From behind death row's walls * Defense: New evidence points to victim’s fiance in Reed case Read more Death Penalty in the News The New Abolitionist * Midazolam: A True Story * New evidence makes clear: Rodney Reed must be freed! * Real Justice, not Cowboy Justice, for Rodney Reed! Read more New Abolitionist Articles © 2016 www.nodeathpenalty.org