News & Commentary about Capital Punishment


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

Sep 10, 2015
Montez Spradley, an Innocent Man Once on Death Row, Is Free

Aug 13, 2015
Connecticut Supreme Court Declares Death Penalty Is Unconstitutional

Jul 1, 2015
The Death Penalty Has an Innocence Problem — and Its Days Are Numbered

Mar 18, 2015
How Did a Lifelong Prison Sentence for an Iraq Vet Turn Into an Imminent Death Sentence?

Feb 18, 2015
Replacing the Noose With a Needle: The Legacy of Lynching in the United States