Jordan Smith

Jordan Smith is a state and national award-winning investigative journalist based in Austin, Texas. She has covered criminal justice for more than 20 years and, during that time, has developed a reputation as a resourceful and dogged reporter with a talent for analyzing complex social and legal issues. She is regarded as one of the best investigative reporters in Texas. A longtime staff writer for the Austin Chronicle, her work has also appeared in The Nation, the Crime Report, and Salon, among other places.

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The CondemnedBy Any Measure, Capital Punishment Is a Failed Policy

Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith — December 3 2019

Most people who have been sentenced to death in the U.S. are no longer on death row, and they haven’t been executed. Where did they go?

The CondemnedWhat Happens When a Reform Prosecutor Stands Up to the Death Penalty

Jordan Smith — December 3 2019

Prosecutors wield enormous discretion in the U.S. criminal justice system — unless they decide that capital punishment is unjust.

The CondemnedA Push to Repeal the Death Penalty Gains Ground Across the Western United States

Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith — December 3 2019

Abolition of the death penalty has increasingly become a bipartisan issue, with fiscal conservatives joining reformers focused on wrongful convictions.

Fingerprint Analysis Is High-Stakes Work — but It Doesn’t Take Much to Qualify as an Expert

Jordan Smith — November 29 2019

One wrong fingerprint match could send an innocent person to prison or see a killer go free. But proficiency tests are frighteningly easy to pass.

Texas Court Halts Rodney Reed Execution Over Questions of Withheld Evidence, False Testimony

Jordan Smith — November 17 2019

In a dramatic turn of events, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an indefinite stay of execution for Rodney Reed on November 15.

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