California Police Are Buying Guns From Dealers With Troubling Records
Law enforcement agencies spent millions in taxpayer funds buying weapons from vendors cited for gun safety violations, a new analysis reveals.
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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Trials of Richard Glossip
Facing His Eighth Execution Date, Richard Glossip Asks for Clemency
An Oklahoma court refused to consider new evidence of Glossip’s innocence. Now the state’s parole board may be his last chance.
A Special Prosecutor Found Kevin Johnson’s Case Was Tainted by Racism. Missouri Is About to Kill Him Anyway.
Kevin Johnson is facing execution for killing a cop when he was 19. A special prosecutor says his sentence should be vacated.
The End of Roe
Kentucky Voters Reject Amendment 2 in “Repudiation of Extreme Anti-Choice Agenda”
Every state with abortion on the ballot saw decisive action to protect reproductive rights.
The End of Roe
Kentucky Lawmakers Seek Exclusive Control Over Residents’ Reproductive Rights
A Kentucky ballot measure, Amendment 2, would bar state courts from considering the constitutionality of abortion.
Texas Invents New Barriers to DNA Testing While Blaming Rodney Reed for Delay Tactics
Amid mounting evidence of Reed’s innocence, Texas dickered over deadlines in a convoluted argument before the Supreme Court.
The End of Roe
After Clinic Arson, Abortion Rights Advocates in Wyoming Step Up Their Fight
Lawmakers want to ban abortion. Advocates are confident that Wyoming’s constitution protects access — and they’re fighting in court to prove it.
Texas Claims It’s “Too Late” for DNA Testing That Could Get Rodney Reed Off Death Row
Now Reed is taking his fight to the Supreme Court.
The End of Roe
University of Idaho Issues Gag Order on Abortion
An email from the university’s general counsel seeks to steer employees around Idaho’s vague and archaic anti-abortion laws.
Trials of Richard Glossip
Oklahoma Lawmaker Calls for Investigation of Prosecutors Who Convicted Richard Glossip
Glossip faces a December execution date as Oklahoma lawmakers call attention to new evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in his case.