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Five things to know about the death penalty in Pa. | Friday Morning Coffee

BY: - February 24, 2023

Lawmakers in the state House and Senate have reintroduced bills to get Pennsylvania out of the capital punishment business.

Botched executions reached ‘astonishing’ high in 2022, report finds

BY: - December 18, 2022

Two more death row prisoners were exonerated in 2022, even as society’s ultimate sanction became more geographically isolated, with only a handful of states carrying out executions in the last year, according to a new report. The number of botched executions also reached an “astonishing” level, according to the research by the Death Penalty Information […]