death penalty

The American Civil Liberties Union says a death sentence has more to do with the race, county, and quality of lawyer than the crime committed.

Election takes place after more than four years in which freedom of expression has been systematically repressed, says Amnesty International.

Pennsylvania is the only statethat fails to provide any state funding towards the representation of defendants who are too poor to pay for private attorneys. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania have therefore filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the state Supreme Court to hold Pennsylvania’s capital punishment system in violation of the state constitution.

Supreme courts in Washington and Delaware have recently declared their states’ death penalty laws unconstitutional.