April 30
TRINIDAD:
The death penalty in the region
The year 2018 was a year of many firsts when it came to the death penalty in
the Caribbean.
For the first time since Amnesty International began its monitoring in 1979, no
new death sentences were known to have been imposed by
April 30
OHIO:
More reasons to abolish death penalty than to retain it
The New Hampshire legislature just voted to abolish capital punishment. While
the governor has promised to veto it, it passed with such a majority that it
may be veto-proof. New Hampshire may be about to join the
April 30
TEXAS:
Texas House offers a new way to determine whether a defendant has intellectual
disabilities — and is ineligible for executionThe lower chamber gave
initial approval to a bill creating a pretrial process to determine if a
capital murder defendant is intellectually
