Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened?
Lucio faces execution in April for killing her 2-year-old daughter. Experts say her conviction was based on faulty forensics.
Lucio faces execution in April for killing her 2-year-old daughter. Experts say her conviction was based on faulty forensics.
Migrants are being detained in squalid conditions in Juárez, Mexico, amid the Biden administration's court-ordered reboot of the program.
Murderville Podcast
In the wake of a scandal within the Houston police crime lab, Charles Raby’s lawyers discover that forensic evidence was hidden from the defense at trial.
A suite of celebrity-backed legislation pushes criminal justice changes in 11 states. In Pennsylvania and Virginia, they may prove too confusing to provide much help.
The War on Immigrants
Ravi Ragbir said he was targeted for deportation because of protected speech criticizing ICE and the immigration enforcement regime.
Voices
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, as part of his reelection bid, wants to punish supporters and caregivers of trans youth as child abusers.
Protests for Black Lives
Victims of a right-wing gunman’s shooting spree in Portland said it was unprovoked. Why did the police make the attack sound like a shootout?
Murderville Podcast
A lot of people swear they’d never confess to something they didn’t do. But it happens — a lot more than you’d think.
Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE's deportation machine.
Voices
The left should seek to employ the disruptive power on display in Canadian protests — but only on its own anti-racist, antifascist terms.
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