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    • 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.
    • Content Page

    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.

    • News Release

    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.

    • 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.
    • 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

    Maryland Death Penalty - Letter to Gov. O'Malley

    NACDL letter to Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley in support of legislation to repeal the death penalty.
    • Document

    Maryland Death Penalty - Letter to Senate and House Members

    NACDL letter to Maryland Senate and House of Delegate members in support of SB 276/HB 295, legislation to repeal the death penalty.
    • Document

    Delaware Death Penalty

    NACDL letter of support to members of the Delaware House of Representatives regarding SB 19, legislation to repeal the death penalty.
    • Document

    New Hampshire Death Penalty - Letter to Senate Minority Leader Sylvia Larsen

    NACDL letter of support to New Hampshire Senate Minority Leader Sylvia Larsen for HB 1170, an act to repeal the death penalty in New Hampshire.
    • Document

    New Hampshire Death Penalty - Letter to Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley

    NACDL letter of support to New Hampshire Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley for HB 1170, an act to repeal the death penalty in New Hampshire.
    • News Release

    News Release ~ 04/07/1998

    Death Penalty Condemned at U.N. - Washington, DC (April 7, 1998) -- "Capital punishment in the United States is a direct descendant of lynching and other forms of racial violence," a representative of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) told the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland last week.
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    Statement to United Nations Commission on Human Rights on Abolishing the Death Penalty (March 1998)

    Professor Speedy Rice's testimony on behalf of NACDL to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights regarding the disparities and inhumanity of the death penalty, especially in the United States.