The Condemned
By Any Measure, Capital Punishment Is a Failed Policy
Most people who have been sentenced to death in the U.S. are no longer on death row, and they haven’t been executed. Where did they go?
Justice
The Condemned
What Happens When a Reform Prosecutor Stands Up to the Death Penalty
Prosecutors wield enormous discretion in the U.S. criminal justice system — unless they decide that capital punishment is unjust.
The Condemned
A Push to Repeal the Death Penalty Gains Ground Across the Western United States
Abolition of the death penalty has increasingly become a bipartisan issue, with fiscal conservatives joining reformers focused on wrongful convictions.
The Condemned
Race Looms Ever Larger as Death Sentences Decline
The Supreme Court restarted the death penalty in 1976 after ruling it unconstitutional. Our numbers show that race remains an overwhelming factor.
The War on Immigrants
Cameroonian Asylum-Seekers at the Border Are Fleeing a U.S.-Backed Military Force
Some 10,000 Cameroonians have tried to ask for asylum in the U.S. since 2016, many of them escaping brutal treatment by an elite Cameroonian military unit.
Fingerprint Analysis Is High-Stakes Work — but It Doesn’t Take Much to Qualify as an Expert
One wrong fingerprint match could send an innocent person to prison or see a killer go free. But proficiency tests are frighteningly easy to pass.
"We Are Still Here": Native Activists in Arizona Resist Trump's Border Wall
In the heart of the Sonoran Desert, a coalition of borderlands residents are fighting to preserve sacred lands.
The War on Immigrants
Humanitarian Volunteer Scott Warren Reflects on the Borderlands and Two Years of Government Persecution
A jury found Scott Warren not guilty in the government’s second attempt to lock him up for providing humanitarian aid on the border in Arizona.
Voices
Meet the Tucson 12: Under Trump, Protesters Are Being Hit With Felony Riot Charges
In another crackdown on dissent in the Trump era, protesters against a prison in Arizona were hit with severe charges.
Texas Court Halts Rodney Reed Execution Over Questions of Withheld Evidence, False Testimony
In a dramatic turn of events, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an indefinite stay of execution for Rodney Reed on November 15.