Death Penalty

Joe Biden Is Doing Nothing to Prevent Another Federal Execution Spree

Austin Sarat

July 06, 2021 1:08 PM

Joe Biden’s Craven Death Penalty Reversal in the Boston Bomber Case

Austin Sarat

June 15, 2021 4:49 PM

Arizona’s Horrifying Plan to Bring Back the Gas Chamber

Austin Sarat

June 04, 2021 3:49 PM

Sotomayor Calls Out Kavanaugh for Breaking His Promise to Death Row Inmates

Mark Joseph Stern

May 24, 2021 3:58 PM

Four Years After Arkansas Executed Ledell Lee, DNA Points to Someone Else

Jeremy Stahl

May 07, 2021 1:29 PM

Congress Finally Scrutinizes One of SCOTUS’s Most Disturbing Practices

Mark Joseph Stern

Feb 18, 2021 6:53 PM

Amy Coney Barrett Joins Liberals and a Mystery Justice to Block Execution

Mark Joseph Stern

Feb 12, 2021 11:35 AM

With Death Penalty Abolition, Virginia Is Becoming a Test Lab for Progressive Reform

Jeremy Stahl

Feb 05, 2021 3:52 PM

Biden Is the First President to Openly Oppose the Death Penalty. Now What?

Austin Sarat

Jan 21, 2021 3:59 PM

Trump Targeted the Mentally Ill With His Lame Duck Execution Spree

Austin Sarat

Jan 16, 2021 6:12 PM

Sotomayor Condemns Trump’s Execution Spree: “This Is Not Justice”

Mark Joseph Stern

Jan 16, 2021 12:39 PM

America’s Most Famous Nun on Confronting Death

Molly Olmstead

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The Death Sentence Is Dubious

The Gist Dec 21, 2020 7:40 PM

The First Woman to Face Federal Execution in 67 Years Never Got to Tell Her Story

Lauren Gill

Dec 21, 2020 5:45 AM

Trump’s Approval of Hanging and Firing Squads Is a National Embarrassment

Austin Sarat

Nov 30, 2020 5:24 PM

William Barr’s Lame-Duck Execution Spree Is Unprecedented

Austin Sarat

Nov 24, 2020 4:06 PM

The Alarming Growth of the Supreme Court’s “Shadow Docket”

Steve Vladeck

Aug 11, 2020 12:12 PM

As COVID-19 Ravages California’s Death Row, the State Attorney General Fights to Keep It Packed

Lara Bazelon

July 27, 2020 2:40 PM

An Oral History of the First Federal Execution Under Donald Trump

Keri Blakinger and Maurice Chammah

July 24, 2020 11:03 AM

The Return of Federal Executions

Mary Harris

July 16, 2020 2:29 PM

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