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Florida Supreme Court Destroys Precedent Protecting Mentally Disabled People From Execution

Mark Joseph Stern

May 22, 2020 4:36 PM
Missouri Pushes to Execute a Possibly Innocent Man During the Pandemic

Austin Sarat

May 13, 2020 10:49 AM
Death Penalty States Won’t Turn Over Scarce COVID-19 Drugs

Austin Sarat

April 20, 2020 3:02 PM
City Agrees to Test DNA in Landmark Case That Could Exonerate an Executed Man

Jeremy Stahl

Feb 03, 2020 1:25 PM
Florida Supreme Court Gives Itself the Power to Shred Liberal Precedent, Starting With Death Penalty Limits

Mark Joseph Stern

Jan 23, 2020 6:21 PM
A New Lawsuit Seeks to Prove Ledell Lee Was Innocent When Arkansas Executed Him

Jeremy Stahl

Jan 23, 2020 11:35 AM
The Big Problem With Elizabeth Warren’s Anti–Death Penalty Stance

Ben Miller and Daniel S. Harawa

Jan 22, 2020 12:08 PM
What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Just Mercy

Matthew Dessem

Dec 25, 2019 9:03 AM
Saudi Arabia Sentences Five to Death for Jamal Khashoggi Murder in Istanbul

Elliot Hannon

Dec 23, 2019 7:37 AM
Kentucky’s GOP Governor Issues Hundreds of Pardons, Many Controversial, Before Leaving Office

Elliot Hannon

Dec 13, 2019 10:38 AM
Just Mercy Stars Michael B. Jordan as a Real-Life Atticus Finch

Inkoo Kang

Dec 11, 2019 5:50 AM
Why the Supreme Court Rebuked the Trump Administration’s Quest for Speedy Executions

Mark Joseph Stern

Dec 07, 2019 1:20 PM
Kamala Harris Got No Momentum From a Strong-Looking Start

Julia Craven

Dec 04, 2019 9:09 PM
How a Confederate Amnesty Case Could Save Black Death Row Inmates in North Carolina

Jeremy Stahl

Aug 26, 2019 9:00 AM
Trump’s Death Penalty Obsession Won’t Stem the Tide Against Executions

Austin Sarat

July 26, 2019 11:46 AM
The Federal Government Plans to Revive the Death Penalty After 16 Years

Chip Brownlee

July 25, 2019 3:38 PM
Census and Sensibility at SCOTUS
Podcast Episode June 29, 2019 10:00 AM
New Hampshire Legislature Overrides Veto, Abolishes Death Penalty

Mark Joseph Stern

May 30, 2019 1:11 PM
John Oliver Shows Lethal Injections Can Be Just As Grisly As the Guillotine

Natalia Winkelman

May 06, 2019 12:44 PM
White Supremacist Executed for Racially Motivated 1998 Murder That Changed How Hate Crimes Are Prosecuted

Elliot Hannon

April 24, 2019 9:32 PM