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News Articles on the Death Penalty (most recent at top)

  • Execution pause offers means to verify justice on death row, Harrisburg Patriot News, 4/30/07
  • The death penalty has served its time. Carlisle Sentinel, 4/3/07
  • Death Penalty supporters a minority of Pennsylvanians, January 2007 Penn State poll shows
  • Group wants study of death penalty criteria, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 5/2/07
  • Group seeks moratorium for 2 years on executions, (Harrisburg) Patriot News, 5/2/07
  • Ferlo seeks 2-year ban on executions, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 5/2/07
  • Capital punishment: A closer look, CBS-12 Harrisburg, 5/1/07
  • Articles on Exoneree speaking events and demonstration, April 13 in Philadelphia:
    Philadelphia Inquirer
    Carlisle Sentinel
    Philadelphia City Paper
    Philadelphia Daily News
  • City Paper's Interview of Sam Millsap of the Pennsylvania Death Penalty Moratorium Coalition
  • Article on death row exoneree Harold Wilson, Phila City Paper, 9/14/06.
  • Affronts to Justice, an Op-Ed by PADP co-chair Andy Hoover, Harrisburg Patriot News, 7/16/06
  • Study finds disturbing trend on race and the death penalty in Philadelphia
  • Harold Wilson is the 7th wrongfully convicted person to be released from PA's death row. Article from DPIC; Democracy Now! interview
  • "No easy path to forgiveness"(Sunbury/Lewisburg) Daily Item, Feb. 28th 2006
  • Letter to the Editor by SE Chapter chair Lisa Ziemer (Phila. Daily News, 2/6/06)
  • "Protesters rail against death penalty" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 29th 2005)
  • Op-ed by Andy Hoover: 1,000 executions - will capital punishment end? (originally printed in York Daily Record)
  • "Death penalty foes demand moratorium during Downtown rally" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 5th 2004)
  • Family finds forgiveness (Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Dec. 28th 2003)
  • Editorial: The Flat Wheels of Justice (Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Dec. 14th 2003)

    News Excerpts

  • Corageous PA Death Rox Exoneree William Nieves passed away in October 2005. Click here to read the press release. Click here to learn how to contribute to the Innocents Assistance Fund created to honor his memory.
  • News about Yarris Exoneration, 12/09/03
  • Report on recent legal decisions in Pa. death penalty cases


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