The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/death-penalty/)
The documentary focuses on the case of Melissa Lucio, a woman convicted for the 2007 death of her two-year-old daughter Mariah. As of 2021, Melissa has been on death row for 13 years. Melissa suffered immense trauma in her life, including sexual assault beginning at age six. Melissa married at just 16 years old; she said in the film she wanted “to escape” her childhood.
The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide works to secure justice for Kanizan Bibi, a woman on Death Row in Pakistan.
The Makwanyane institute is a part of the broader international abolitionist movement to abolish the death penalty and strengthens an African movement often overlooked, according to Prof. Sandra Babcock, law.
The use of capital punishment in the criminal justice system is severely flawed, because it can be difficult to fairly discern who deserves the death penalty, argued Denny LeBoeuf, the current director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s John Adams Project.
Blume — who said he has spent the past 30 years studying this issue and representing people on death row — said he believes the death penalty “has run its course.”
Richard Glossip was scheduled to die at 3 p.m. on Sept. 30, 2015. After that hour passed without event, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin issued a stay of execution, delaying Glossip’s execution until the Nov. 6. For the fourth time since October 2014, the state of Oklahoma stayed Richard Glossip’s execution.