Missouri — (NBC News) Ernest Johnson, 61, was exe- cuted Oct. 5 by lethal injection at a state prison in Bonne Terre. His lawyers claimed that he had … [Read more...]

Pennsylvania — The advocacygroup Straight Ahead! issupporting two new bills. Thefirst would allow the possibilityof parole for over 5,000 … [Read more...]

Arizona—Prison officials are taking steps to use hydrogen cyanide, the same gas used in Nazi extermina-tion camps, to kill death row inmates, The … [Read more...]

South Carolina -The failure to find drugs to carry out lethal injections led lawmakers to pass a bill that would force Death Row prisoners to pick the … [Read more...]

USA — Private prison companies GEO and Core- Civic are being sued for forcing detainees in their private prisons to work for free, or, in some cases, … [Read more...]

Raleigh, North Carolina — The ACLU Statewide Campaign for Smart Justice is moving to end putting incarcerated pregnant women in … [Read more...]

1. Texas — The Death Penalty Information Center re- ports that Texas has scheduled 13 executions between August and December, which is more than the … [Read more...]

USA — A new report Can’t Pay Can’t Vote by the Civil Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law shows that 30 states still keep people from voting by use of what … [Read more...]