Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that an offender is to be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.

We are repairing the Commonwealth through the education of our shared history and advocacy for the abolition of the death penalty.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground.

– Frederick Douglass

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Death Penalty and Abolition: National and Local Updates

Supreme Court blocks Texas execution ...the justices put Gutierrez’s execution on hold until they decide whether to take up his appeal.
Kentucky Edition: Death Penalty Ruling KET's Renee Shaw gives an update on Kentucky's death penalty status.
AG Russell Coleman moves to restart executions On March 7, 2024, General Coleman filed a motion with the Franklin Circuit to lift its temporary injunction on the death penalty.