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    • Champion Article

    The NACDL Q&A: Always Fighting Something Bigger: Conversation With a Storyteller

    When he practiced law, John Grisham represented working people and those accused of crimes. How did his legal career influence his writing life? If he could change one law, which one would he change? NACDL Executive Director Lisa M. Wayne takes a few moments to get inside the head of her favorite author.
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    Death Penalty Resources

    Reports and other resources related to the death penalty.
    • Content Page

    Race and the Death Penalty

    “Even under the most sophisticated death penalty statutes, race continues to play a major role in determining who shall live and who shall die. Perhaps it should not be surprising that the biases and prejudices that infect society generally would influence the determination of who is sentenced to death.” – Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (1994)

    • Landing Page

    Death Penalty

    Does the death penalty serve as a deterrent for crime? The research says no. Leading criminologists overwhelmingly agree that there is no evidence capital punishment deters violent crimes. Not only is the death penalty unjust and inconsistent with the fallibility of our criminal legal system, but application of the death penalty is racially biased.
    • Champion Article

    Book Review: Until I Could Be Sure by George H. Ryan Sr. with Maurice Possley

    This month Tony Bornstein reviews Until I Could Be Sure: How I Stopped the Death Penalty in Illinois by George H. Ryan Sr. with Maurice Possley.
    • Champion Article

    Book Review: The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson by Chris Joyner

    This month Jon M. Sands reviews The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: A Battle for Justice at the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era by Chris Joyner.
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    Calling for a Moratorium on and Abolition of the Death Penalty

    NACDL supports all efforts to preserve human life by way of a moratorium on executions, and renews its call for abolition of the death penalty. 
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    Death Penalty

    NACDL supports abolition of the death penalty in Ohio and all other states that continue to utilize it. 
    • Document

    Maryland Death Penalty - Letter to Sen. Mike Miller

    NACDL letter to Senator Michael Miller in support of legislation to repeal the death penalty in Maryland.
    • Document

    Virginia Death Penalty - Electric Chair Opposition Letter

    NACDL letter of opposition to Virginia Governor Terence R. McAuliffe regarding HB 815, which would make the electric chair the default method of execution if lethal injection drugs are not available in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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    Endorsing Proposition 34 to End the Death Penalty in California

    NACDL endorses Proposition 34 as a more effective, just, and cost-efficient method of preventing, solving, and punishing crime.
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    Guiding NACDL's Efforts in the Capital Punishment Area

    The Committee proposes the following:

    1. NACDL should allocate resources to establish an additional NACDL Death Penalty Counsel. This Counsel should, in collaboration with the National Consortium for Capital Defense Training, conduct the BJA-supported bring-your-own-case training and should also provide follow-up resource support to the defense teams after the trainings...............
    • News Release

    News Release ~ 05/30/2019

    NACDL Applauds Abolition of the Death Penalty in New Hampshire -- Washington, DC (May 30, 2019) – This morning, the New Hampshire legislature overrode Governor Sununu’s veto of its legislation repealing the death penalty, making New Hampshire the last state in New England, and the 21st state in the nation, to abolish or overturn the death penalty. Earlier this session, the New Hampshire House and Senate had both passed legislation to repeal the death penalty by veto-proof majorities. 
    • News Release

    News Release ~ 05/24/2016

    Nation's Criminal Defense Bar: The Continuing Collapse of the Case for Capital Punishment -- Washington, DC (May 24, 2016) – Yesterday, in its 7 to 1 judgment in Foster v. Chatman (14-8349), the U.S. Supreme Court found that prosecutors violated the Constitution in the 1987 capital case against Timothy T. Foster, an African-American man accused of killing a white woman, when they struck every prospective black juror from the pool.

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    News Release ~ 03/17/2017

    Nation’s Criminal Defense Bar Denounces Florida Governor’s Interference with Prosecutor’s Decision Not To Seek Death Penalty - Washington, DC (Mar. 17, 2017) – According to news reports, recently-elected Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala was removed yesterday from a death penalty eligible case by an executive order of Florida Governor Rick Scott.