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Oral argument is scheduled for next week in State v. Powell, where the issue is whether the Delaware Supreme Court’s recent decision in State v. Rauf, holding Delaware’s death penalty statute unconstitutional, should be applied to the 12 men now on death row.

This summer, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero created a comprehensive report stating that President-Elect Trump's statements and policy proposals would blatantly violate the inalienable rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The report, Donald Trump: A One-Man Constitutional Crisis, is available on the ACLU website.

Attorney General Matt Denn will not appeal the Delaware Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty, but he is still looking to execute the 13 men currently on death row.

ACLU-DE Executive Director responds to an editorial regarding the her statements on the end of the death penalty in Delaware.

The Delaware Supreme Court has decided that the Delaware death penalty statute is unconstitutional based on their understanding of the Sixth Amendment—trial by jury—and the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Hurst v. Florida. The ACLU of Delaware applauds this decision.

Matthew Segal, Legal Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, writes about systemic problems in cases with police misconduct.

This post is part of our Summer 2016 issue of Connection, our quarterly newsletter. To read the whole newsletter, click here.

The collateral consequences involved with a criminal conviction are often long lasting and disproportionately impact lower income people.

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