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.
Justice
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.”
Despite Missouri AG’s Best Efforts, Man Condemned to Die Will Get Hearing On His Innocence Claim
Attorney General Andrew Bailey had argued that the state should execute Marcellus Williams without vetting evidence of his wrongful conviction.
Now a Lame Duck, Biden Finally Floats Supreme Court Reforms
Once the stuff of progressive pipe dreams, now even centrists like Biden are questioning the court’s outsized power.