His Best Chance to Get Off Death Row Was DNA on the Murder Weapon, but Prosecutors “Contaminated” the Evidence
The prosecutor’s actions two decades ago doomed Marcellus Williams’s shot at exoneration. Now the AG won’t let his life be spared.
Justice
Voices
College Administrators Spent Summer Break Dreaming Up Ways to Squash Gaza Protests
New York University students who speak out against Zionism will now risk violating the school’s nondiscrimination policies.
Out for Blood
Democrats Abandoned Their Anti-Death Penalty Stance. Those on Federal Death Row May Pay the Price.
Witnesses to Trump's execution spree are dismayed by Democrats' decision to remove death penalty opposition from their party platform.
A Prosecutor Admits His Office’s Incompetence Cut Off an Innocent Man’s Path to Exoneration
A Missouri prosecutor was set to argue that Marcellus Williams had been wrongly convicted. New evidence that prosecutors had mishandled the murder weapon got in the way.
The NYPD Is Illegally Leaking Sealed Records About Children to Tabloids
The juvenile arrest records are sealed by law — but police regularly disclose them to prosecutors and even right-wing media.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Days Before Convention, Activists Sue Police Over Violence at DNC Headquarters Protest
D.C. police assaulted Gaza war protesters and strangled them with their own keffiyehs, a lawsuit alleges.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Student Protesters Were Suspended With No Chance to Defend Themselves. Will Courts Return Them to Campus?
“The suspensions happened immediately and it was without any due process.”
Kamala Harris Wants to Distinguish Herself From Joe Biden. Criminal Justice Is a Place to Start.
As a U.S. senator, Harris pushed criminal justice reforms. Will she run on her ideas — or run away from them?
Ghosts of Guantánamo
Ex-Guantánamo Detainee Forcibly Repatriated to Russia Despite Fears of Torture
Ravil Mingazov spent the last seven years in the UAE as part of a secret U.S. deal that was said to bar further transfers with risks of abuse.
Voices
The Outrageous Case of a Journalist Charged With a Hate Crime for Recording a Gaza Protest Action
“This appears to be a clear attempt to stifle both journalistic activities and pro-Palestine speech.”