News & Commentary about Capital Punishment
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Mar 20, 2017
Arkansas’s Reckless Plan to Execute 8 Men in 10 Days Could End in State-Sanctioned Torture Before Death
Dec 9, 2016
The State of Alabama Last Night Tortured a Man While Slowly Snuffing Out His Life
Nov 4, 2016
Killing Dylann Roof Won’t Make Us or the Death Penalty Any Less Racist
Aug 24, 2016
My Brother Was Brutally Murdered, But the Delaware Supreme Court’s Decision to Ban the Death Penalty Was the Right One
Jun 30, 2016
Because the Prosecutors Withheld Evidence, This Man Has Spent 30 Years on Death Row
May 25, 2016
Prosecutors Still Using Race to Choose Juries in Death Penalty Cases, Despite Century of Supreme Court Rulings
Apr 25, 2016
Texas Courts Rely on 'Of Mice and Men' to Define Intellectual Disability and Sentence People to Death
Feb 9, 2016
Brendan Dassey, Max Soffar, and the False Confession Playbook
Nov 2, 2015
If Nothing Happens Between Now and Tonight, Missouri Will Execute an Intellectually Disabled Man