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Appeals Court Blocks Alabama From Executing Muslim Inmate Without the Presence of His Imam

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The Electric Chair Is Back and the Death Penalty Is on Life Support

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Washington Supreme Court Outlaws Life Without Parole for Juvenile Offenders

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Washington Supreme Court Outlaws Death Penalty in the State for Good

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The Key Supreme Court Cases That Will Be Affected if Kavanaugh Doesn’t Get Confirmed in September

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Sept 18, 2018 7:35 PM

Pope Francis Declares, “The Death Penalty Is Inadmissible”

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Aug 02, 2018 10:38 AM

The Latest ISIS Casualty: Britain’s Principled Opposition to the Death Penalty

Nadim Houry

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The Trauma of Trying—and Failing—to Save Someone From Death Row

Susannah Sheffer

Sept 29, 2017 12:00 AM

Why Jurors Are Rejecting the Death Penalty

Brandon L. Garrett

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What It Was Like to Wait for Death With One of the Men Executed in Arkansas

Ibby Caputo

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What Happens When a Capital Defendant Is Too Poor to Prove That He’s Brain-Damaged?

Dahlia Lithwick

April 29, 2017 10:04 AM

What the Travesty in Arkansas Tells Us About the Possibility for a Just Death Penalty in America

Joel Cohen, Richard A. Posner, and Jed S. Rakoff

April 28, 2017 3:30 PM

Arkansas Supreme Court Blocks State’s First of Near-Daily Executions Planned By End of Month

Elliot Hannon

April 17, 2017 8:54 PM

Arkansas Is About to Execute Six Men Who Likely Suffer From Crippling Mental Impairments

Jessica Brand

March 30, 2017 3:28 PM

SCOTUS Rules Texas Can’t Use Junk Science to Justify Executing the Intellectually Disabled

Mark Joseph Stern

March 28, 2017 12:12 PM

Gov. Rick Scott to Florida Prosecutors: Agree with My Politics or I’ll Take Away Your Power

Larry Hannan

March 21, 2017 5:50 PM

Nearly 300 People Have Been Sent to Florida’s Death Row by Non-Unanimous Juries

Larry Hannan

March 16, 2017 6:48 PM

Stephen Breyer Just Made a Stirring Case to Eradicate the Death Penalty

Rebecca McCray

March 08, 2017 4:54 PM

The Long—but Necessary—Process to Execute Death Row Inmates Is Itself Cruel

Rebecca McCray

March 07, 2017 6:09 PM