Apr 07, 2021
Racial Justice and Civil Rights Organizations Call on Arizona Governor Not to Resume Executions
The Death Penalty Makes the Racism and Error of the Criminal Legal System Permanent
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment
Mar 24, 2021
ACLU of Virginia Responds to Virginia Becoming First State in the South to Abolish the Death Penalty
The following statement can be attributed to Claire Gastañaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia: “As I watched the governor sign a law ending the death penalty in Virg...
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment
Feb 22, 2021
ACLU of Virginia Responds to the Repeal of the Death Penalty
The following statement can be attributed to Claire Gastañaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia: “Today Virginia made history by becoming the first state in the south...
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment
Feb 18, 2021
ACLU Outlines Key Priorities for Biden’s Department of Justice
WASHINGTON — Ahead of Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland's Senate confirmation hearing, the American Civil Liberties Union urged him to make strong, on-the-record commitm...
Jan 16, 2021
ACLU Statement on the 13th and Final Federal Execution
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The federal government carried out the execution of Dustin Higgs — a Black man who did not kill anyone — shortly after 1 a.m., marking the 13th federal ex...
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment
Nov 16, 2020
ACLU Files Preliminary Injunction to End Conditions that Re-Torture Lisa Montgomery
Death Row Conditions Retraumatize Woman Who was Sexually Terrorized for Decades
Issue Areas: Capital Punishment
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