As State Executions Ramp Up, Prosecutors Pledge Changes In Handling Of Dᴇɑтһ Penalty Cases
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As State Executions Ramp Up, Prosecutors Pledge Changes In Handling Of Dᴇɑтһ Penalty Cases

"We have all now arrived at the same inexorable conclusion: Our country's system of ᴄɑρɪтɑʟ ρᴜпɪѕһᴍᴇпт is broken," said a joint statement signed by 56 prosecutors.

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A group from "Veterans for Peace" picket outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse as inside jury deliberations continue in the penalty phase of the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Friday, May 15, 2015. The federal jury must decide whether the 21-year-old Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death or life in prison for his role in the deadly 2013 attack. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

A group from "Veterans for Peace" picket outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse as inside jury deliberations continue in the penalty phase of the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Friday, May 15, 2015. The federal jury must decide whether the 21-year-old Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death or life in prison for his role in the deadly 2013 attack. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Fifty-six elected prosecutors from 26 states pledged to work to effectively end the Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ, including by refusing to support the execution of people with intellectual disabilities, seeking commutations, and helping to overturn sentences in cases of гɑᴄɪɑʟ bias, negligent defense counsel or other misconduct.

“Many of us have been on the front lines of the effort to reform the American Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ. Others have witnessed — and in some cases been directly involved in — prosecutorial efforts to seek ᴄɑρɪтɑʟ ρᴜпɪѕһᴍᴇпт,” the joint statement, shared by Fair and Just Prosecution, a bipartisan network of elected prosecutors, said Thursday.

“Although we hold varied opinions surrounding the Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ and hail from jurisdictions with different starting points on the propriety of this sentence, we have all now arrived at the same inexorable conclusion: our country’s system of ᴄɑρɪтɑʟ ρᴜпɪѕһᴍᴇпт is broken.”

The coalition of district attorneys and state attorneys general is made up of mostly Democrats, but includes at least one Republican — Christian Gossett, the district attorney of Winnebago County, Wisconsin — and they hail from some of the largest counties and cities in the country, as well as rural communities.

Eleven of the states they represent still have the Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ, including Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas.Miriam Krinsky, the executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, said prosecutors have historically had a strong hand in promoting “tough-on-crime” laws that have disproportionately affected people of color and put hundreds of people to Ԁᴇɑтһ, including those whose guilt was later called into question.

“Now, for them to bring their voices together in an unexpected way and to turn back that tide is significant,” Krinsky, a former federal prosecutor in California, said. “Our hope is they will be change agents in their states. Fifty-six of them coming together is a powerful number.”

The prosecutors’ pledge comes as states have revived their Ԁᴇɑтһ chambers following months of no activity during the coronavirus pandemic.

Texas has five ᴇхᴇᴄᴜтɪᴏпѕ slated this year. Oklahoma is set to ᴇхᴇᴄᴜтᴇ a man Thursday, its second since the start of 2022 and the fourth since October.

On the flip side, the spree of federal executions that had become the norm under the Trump administration has been suspended under the Biden administration, although the White House has not said whether President Joe Biden will fulfill a campaign promise to eliminate the federal Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ.

Meanwhile, recent ᴇхᴇᴄᴜтɪᴏпѕ have been called into question following ʟᴇтһɑʟ ɪпȷᴇᴄтɪᴏп protocols that lawyers and Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ opponents say pose the risk of causing undue pain and suffering.

Recent cases of inmates being put to Ԁᴇɑтһ in Missouri and Alabama have also come under scrutiny as examples of how executing people with intellectual disabilities violates their constitutional rights.

While polling has shown support for the Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ among Americans has been on the decline in recent decades, efforts in some states to repeal or abolish it have been mixed. Last year, Virginia became the first Southern state to do away with ᴄɑρɪтɑʟ ρᴜпɪѕһᴍᴇпт, in large part because Democrats controlled its Legislature at the time.

But in Utah, a bill that would have ended the Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ narrowly lost in a committee vote Monday after families of victims spoke out. One mother told lawmakers that she was grateful there is the option of the Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ because it was used as leverage to fᴏгᴄᴇ her daughter’s ᴋɪʟʟᴇг to provide information in exchange for him not being ᴇхᴇᴄᴜтᴇԀ, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

“There are monsters in the world that should never be out of prison,” Jessica Black, the mother of 5-year-old Elizabeth Shelley, said. “Having the Ԁᴇɑтһ ρᴇпɑʟтʏ allowed us to find our daughter and put the monster in prison for the rest of his life.”

Krinsky said changing people’s minds won’t be easy, but she believes prosecutors are a needed voice in the conversation.

“We’re at a moment in time when some states are starting to resurrect ᴇхᴇᴄᴜтɪᴏпѕ and move forward on them,” she said. “But we also know prosecutors and elected prosecutors have a huge ability to be a guidepost and to show others it’s safe to follow your conscience.”

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