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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 Penalty Info Center: The Death Penalty in 2021: Year End Report

Submitted by OADPEditor on Tue, 02/15/2022 - 11:38pm

The death penalty in 2021 was defined by two competing forces: the continuing long-term erosion of capital punishment across most of the country, and extreme conduct by a dwindling number of outlier jurisdictions to continue to pursue death sentences and executions.

New Poll: Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Las Vegas DA Seeking the Death Penalty Against Vulnerable and Impaired Persons

Submitted by OADPEditor on Tue, 02/15/2022 - 11:29pm

Feb 03, 2022 Likely voters in Clark County, Nevada overwhelmingly oppose the use of capital punishment against broad categories of vulnerable and impaired persons whom county prosecutors have been trying to execute, a new poll released by Vegas Watch on January 27, 2022 shows.

Opinion: Reconciling Oregon’s lynching history calls for abolishing death penalty

Submitted by OADPEditor on Tue, 02/15/2022 - 1:34am
Alonzo Tucker

On June 19, Oregonians gathered in Coos Bay to remember Alonzo Tucker, Oregon’s only documented African American victim of lynching. A historical marker now stands outside the Coos History Museum to memorialize Tucker, who was lynched in Coos Bay in 1902 in front of a crowd of 300, and the thousands of other African Americans who were lynched in this country. At the unveiling ceremony, more than 600 people paid witness to this act of justice and meaningfully added a new chapter to Tucker’s story.

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.

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.

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