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Thank you Governor Brown: Gov. Brown Commutes of Death Sentences

Submitted by OADPEditor on Thu, 12/15/2022 - 2:05am

Press Release, December 14, 2022 Governor Brown has just commuted all death row sentences in Oregon. Our thoughts at Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (OADP) are with the families who have suffered the murder of a family member by someone whose sentence has been commuted. It seems impossible to make sense of senseless acts like a brutal murder. We can only begin to imagine the pain, anger, grief, and challenge that must result from being directly touched by such an act. We understand and respect that some of the families and other Oregonians will agree with Gov.

Outgoing Oregon governor commutes death row sentences, orders execution chamber dismantled

Submitted by OADPEditor on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 6:25am

Brown has continued Democratic efforts to end the death penalty in Oregon on her way out of office.

In her final weeks in office, Gov. Kate Brown is commuting the sentences of those on death row and dismantling the state execution chamber in an effort to effectively end capital punishment in Oregon.

Autopsy Shows John Grant Suffered Pulmonary Edema and Intramuscular Hemorrhage and Aspirated Vomit During Oklahoma Execution

Submitted by OADPEditor on Tue, 02/15/2022 - 11:49pm

Feb. 14, 2022 Autopsy results for an Oklahoma death-row prisoner whose execution state officials claimed “was carried out … without complication” have confirmed eyewitness reports that John Grant likely suffered a torturous death. The autopsy, conducted by Tulsa Medical Examiner Jeremy Shelton, M.D., the morning after Grant was executed on October 28, 2021, revealed that Grant suffered pulmonary edema and intramuscular hemorrhaging, and aspirated on his vomit as a result of the lethal injection.

Death Row USA Fall 2021 Report: Death-Row Population Continues Long-Term Decline

Submitted by OADPEditor on Tue, 02/15/2022 - 11:44pm

Feb 09, 2022 The number of people sentenced to death or facing continuing jeopardy of execution in pending capital retrial or resentencing proceedings continued its more than two-decade decline in the third quarter of 2021, according to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) Fall 2021 quarterly census of death rows across the United States.

Opinion: Death penalty ruling doesn’t diminish Oregon voters’ role

Submitted by OADPEditor on Tue, 02/15/2022 - 1:31am

The decision whether to abolish capital punishment in Oregon belongs to voters. Neither the passage of Senate Bill 1013 in 2019 nor the Oregon Supreme Court decision earlier this month in the David Bartol case took the decision whether to retain or abolish the death penalty away from Oregonians, despite this newspaper’s recent editorial (“The death penalty debate voters didn’t get to have,” Oct. 10). That editorial reflects a shocking failure to understand what it means to live in a representative and constitutional democracy. The people are owed a correction.

Oregon Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of serial killer Dayton Rogers once again

Submitted by OADPEditor on Wed, 11/17/2021 - 11:15pm

Oregon Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of serial killer Dayton Rogers once again

The Oregon Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of notorious serial killer Dayton Leroy Rogers on Friday, citing its own historic ruling last month that applied the state's new aggravated murder statute to the case of another condemned man.

OADP Statement on David Bartol Decision Senate Bill 1013

Submitted by OADPEditor on Wed, 11/17/2021 - 11:07pm

The mission of OADP is and has always been to seek and promote alternatives to the death penalty. OADP believes that when the state executes someone, they do so in our names. Consequently, we feel a duty to stand up, be counted, and call for the end to these killings.

Oregon Supreme Court Overturns Death Sentence in Decision that Could Clear the State’s Entire Death Row

Submitted by OADPEditor on Wed, 11/17/2021 - 11:02pm
Oct 8 2021  In a decision that advocates say could clear the state’s death row, the Oregon Supreme Court (justices pictured) has overturned death-row prisoner David Ray Bartol’s death sentence because the crime he committed is no longer statutorily eligible for the death penalty.

New trial ordered for man who has spent 17 years on Oregon’s death row

Submitted by OADPEditor on Thu, 10/07/2021 - 9:56pm
Oct. 6, 2021 Jesse Lee Johnson was convicted of aggravated murder in 2004. He’s always maintained his innocence. The Oregon Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a Black man who has been on death row for 17 years.

Colorado is the 22nd state to abolish the death penalty

Submitted by OADPEditor on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 10:16pm

Tue March 24, 2020 (CNN) The death penalty will soon be no more in Colorado. Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation on Monday abolishing the death penalty, making Colorado the 22nd state to do so.

He also commuted the sentences of three men on death row. Robert Ray, Sir Mario Owens and Nathan Dunlap will now serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to a news release.

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