Law Enforcement

Retired Kansas Secretary of Corrections Werholtz: "It’s time to end the death penalty".

Retired Kansas Secretary of Corrections, Roger Werholtz, has spoken out recently twice in support of death penalty abolition. He served as Secretary of Corrections in Kansas for 8 years, as well as interim director in the Colorado Department of Corrections in 2013. He told the October 21st Abolition Conference that there is too much misconduct and error in the system “to be … [Read more...] about Retired Kansas Secretary of Corrections Werholtz: "It’s time to end the death penalty".

Online Video Conference: Making Communities Safer By Abolishing the Death Penalty

  The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is hosting an online video conference  at 1:00pm CT, Thursday, October 25th focusing on how communities can be safer without the death penalty.  The conference will feature a former prison warden, a corrections official and a death row exoneree.  This is a great opportunity to hear a law enforcement perspective on … [Read more...] about Online Video Conference: Making Communities Safer By Abolishing the Death Penalty

“Smart on Crime” Study Finds Low Support for Death Penalty Among Police Chiefs

The Death Penalty Information Center conducted a survey of 500 police chiefs in the United States.   The survey found that the law enforcement leaders ranked the death penalty as their last choice of crime fighting tools and “the least efficient use of taxpayer’s money.”   Instead, 57 percent of the police chiefs agreed that the death penalty does not work … [Read more...] about “Smart on Crime” Study Finds Low Support for Death Penalty Among Police Chiefs