Two high profile capital cases were in the news this week. Nikolas Cruz and Taylor Parker were both convicted on overwhelming evidence leaving their respective juries to decide if they should die from natural causes behind prison bars or from execution at some point. Cruz knows his fate; Parker awaits hers. If you are not […]
As reported here last October, Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed last month for the unspeakable crime of a foetal abduction – the murder of heavily pregnant mother Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cutting the baby out of her body. No further description is needed except to say that such a crime is horrific beyond […]
Since 1976, when the death penalty was restored following its temporary suspension in 1972, only sixteen women have been executed in the United States. Indeed, only fifty-four have been executed since 1900, the last being Kelly Gissendaner in 2015. By contrast, twenty-two men were executed last year alone. Whatever one’s views on the death penalty, […]
