The End of Roe
Are These the Final Days of Legal Abortion?
Just over three years after the Supreme Court ruled that an anti-abortion law was illegal, the court is being asked again to weigh in on the very same law.
Jordan Smith
Jordan Smith is a state and national award-winning investigative journalist based in Kansas City, Missouri. She has covered the criminal legal system for more than 25 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 spent more than 20 years reporting in Texas where she was regarded as one of the best investigative reporters in the state. Her investigative work in wrongful conviction cases has helped to exonerate six people. A longtime staff writer for the Austin Chronicle, her work has also appeared in The Nation, the Crime Report, and the Texas Observer, among other places.
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The End of Roe
How the Supreme Court Could Gut Reproductive Rights Without Ruling on a Single Abortion Restriction
A Louisiana suit threatens to unravel dozens of cases nationwide by blocking abortion providers from challenging restrictions on behalf of their patients.
The End of Roe
Trump Administration Gives Texas the Green Light to Limit Family Planning Services for Poor Women
The deal will make millions in Medicaid funding available despite the fact that Texas’s program bars women from seeking care from their provider of choice.
The Condemned
By Any Measure, Capital Punishment Is a Failed Policy
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 Condemned
What Happens When a Reform Prosecutor Stands Up to the Death Penalty
Prosecutors wield enormous discretion in the U.S. criminal justice system — unless they decide that capital punishment is unjust.
The Condemned
A Push to Repeal the Death Penalty Gains Ground Across the Western United States
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
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
In a dramatic turn of events, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an indefinite stay of execution for Rodney Reed on November 15.
Texas Prepares to Execute Rodney Reed Amid a Flood of New Evidence Pointing to His Innocence
As Texas forges ahead with execution plans, three more witnesses come forward with explosive accounts.
Murderville
Georgia Supreme Court Urges State to Stop Stonewalling In Devonia Inman Case: “Let Justice Be Done”
Justice David Nahmias lamented the court’s previous refusal to review Devonia Inman’s case and expressed grave doubts about Inman’s underlying guilt.