With Federal Executions Looming, the Democrats’ Death Penalty Legacy Is Coming Back to Haunt Us
Trump’s opponents have condemned his plan to restart federal executions. But it’s only recently that the Democrats turned away from capital punishment.
Trump’s opponents have condemned his plan to restart federal executions. But it’s only recently that the Democrats turned away from capital punishment.
Voices
Kleiman, a defender of nuanced drug policy, was an important influence on America’s slow, unsteady move away from the all-out war on drugs.
Murderville
Inman is serving a life sentence for murder. But DNA evidence implicates another man, Hercules Brown, who went on to kill at least two other people.
The War on Immigrants
“ICE’s mission is to apprehend people that it believes shouldn’t be in our communities and it will go to great lengths to do that, particularly in the face of increased knowledge of rights.”
The War on Immigrants
Sens. Chuck Grassley and Richard Blumenthal are demanding answers from ICE, citing an ICIJ and Intercept investigation into its use of solitary confinement.
The decision came after The Intercept sought access to the filings, some of which have remained under seal for two decades.
The War on Immigrants
Newly unsealed documents detail the tip that led the Border Patrol to zero in on humanitarians rescuing migrants in the Arizona desert.
Voices
He’d be fired from any other major corporation for this dangerous tomfoolery.
The Bureau of Prisons hasn’t released its investigation into what went wrong at the New York jail, but the man in charge just got promoted anyway.
The War on Immigrants
A new rule bars asylum for people who passed through another country on the way to the U.S. Advocates call it “plainly illegal.”
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