Oklahoma Prepares to Execute Richard Glossip
Richard Glossip, the lead plaintiff in <em>Glossip v. Gross</em>, the Supreme Court decision that legalized a controversial form of lethal injection, now faces death — but he may well be innocent.
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As Glossip Execution Nears, Lawyers Challenge Death Penalty Itself as Cruel and Unusual
In a petition filed Friday, attorneys for three men on Oklahoma's death row show why each case reveals the death penalty to be cruel and unusual punishment.
Arkansas Plans to Execute Seven People This Month, Continuing Long Tradition of Assembly-Line Killing
If Arkansas carries out seven executions this month, it will continue a long tradition of experimentation, torture, and secrecy in the name of justice.
Death Penalty Dysfunction in 2015
Executions continue to decline across the country, yet 2015 was still a wretched and messy year as far as the death penalty was concerned.
What Justice Breyer's Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty's Defenders
Alongside a flimsy majority opinion in <em>Glossip v. Gross</em>, Justice Breyer's dissent exposed just how much cruelty must be tolerated to defend the death penalty in 2015.
Will the Supreme Court Look Behind the Curtain of Lethal Injection?
Seven years after upholding lethal injection the U.S. Supreme Court once again confronts questions about the drugs the state uses in executions.
What We're Reading and Streaming This Summer
Novels by Umberto Eco and Max Brooks, poetry by Wislawa Szymborska, films from Les Blank and Jo Nesbo — the staff of The Intercept suggests everything you need to be happy at the beach.
Lethal Injection Problems Lead States to Re-Adopt "Gruesome" Execution Methods
As a key death penalty case looms before the U.S. Supreme Court, states have turned to the firing squad, electric chair and lethal gas for carrying out executions.
