Results List
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The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All
Source: Death Penalty Information Center
Only two percent of U.S. counties have been responsible for the majority of cases leading to executions since 1976, according to this report by the Death Penalty Information Center. The disparate and highly clustered use of the death penalty raises serious questions of unequal, costly…
Resource type: Research Report
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The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All
Source: Death Penalty Information Center
Only two percent of U.S. counties have been responsible for the majority of cases leading to executions since 1976, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center. This video summary of the report shows how the disparate and highly clustered use of the…
Resource type: Video
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Lethally Deficient: Direct Appeals in Texas Death Penalty Cases
Source: Texas Defender Service
The system in Texas for providing representation for indigent defendants appealing their death penalty convictions is broken and in dire need of reform, according to this report from the Texas Defender Service. Researchers based their conclusion on an examination of six years of direct death penalty appeals, which…
Resource type: Research Report
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Creating Momentum: The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Investments to Repeal the Death Penalty in the United States
Source: Michael Quinn Patton and Kay E. Sherwood
Atlantic’s investments totaling about $60 million between 2004 and 2016 have been a contributing factor in the growing momentum to abolish the death penalty in the United States, according to an evaluation of the foundation’s work to end capital punishment. As noted in the report,…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Righting Wrongs: Ending the Death Penalty
On 21 September 2011, Larry Cox, former executive director of Amnesty International USA, gathered his thoughts in a church in Georgia across from the prison where Troy Davis awaited execution. Atlantic support has played a key role in building momentum and making demonstrable progress in…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Ray’s Story: A Death Penalty Mistake
Ray Krone was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. “I was the 100th person exonerated from death row. So, there was lots of media attention when I got out. On that first day, a reporter asked me, ‘Ray, given your faith…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Abolishing the Death Penalty in Maryland
“Maryland today becomes the 18th state to abolish the death penalty….In doing so it joins every other western country and almost every country on the planet…..But most importantly, today, Maryland pushes America towards abolishing the death penalty and rejoining its rightful place as a global…
Resource type: Video
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Ray’s Story – A Death Penalty Mistake
Ray Krone was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. He has been proven innocent and exonerated, and now helps other “exonerees” share their stories of unjust sentences and close calls with state-sanctioned death penalties. Ray works for Witness to Innocence, which…
Resource type: Video
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First-Year Implementation of the Center for After-School Excellence Certificate Programs
Source: Center of After-School Excellence
A college-based, one-year certificate programme for after-school workers garnered positive response from U.S. participants who said the programme helped them improve their academic abilities as well as their knowledge about working with youth, according to this evaluation by Policy Study Associates.The Center of After-School Excellence…
Resource type: Evaluation
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Book: Public interest litigation and social change in South Africa: Strategies, tactics and lessons
In 2007, The Atlantic Philanthropies approached two legal practitioners, Gilbert Marcus SC and Steven Budlender, to conduct an evaluation of public interest litigation in South Africa, following The Atlantic Philanthropies’ substantial investment in the field. The resulting report – A strategic evaluation of public interest litigation…
Resource type: Research Report