Liliana Segura

Prosecutorial misconduct and deficient lawyering deprived Inman of a fair trial, a judge ruled. Inman’s case was the subject of The Intercept’s “Murderville, Georgia” podcast.

Persistent problems with lethal injection have not swayed the state’s determination to put Jones and five other men to death.

Arizona hopes the court’s conservative majority will do what prosecutors are unable to: send Barry Jones back to death row.

Virginia made history when it abolished capital punishment. But for those who were proximate to the state’s 113 executions, closure remains complicated.

As momentum builds to abolish the federal death penalty, the loved ones of those killed in Terre Haute have just started to grieve.

Higgs was sentenced to death for his role in a triple murder. A key witness later said the government’s case was “bullshit.”

Lisa Montgomery was executed early Wednesday as part of a wave of federal executions in the final months of the Trump administration.

The killings in Terre Haute may look like an aberration, but they are part of a violent tradition that Americans have long accepted.

Will Trump’s execution spree, court shutdowns, and the toll of Covid-19 hasten the demise of the death penalty?

In the shadow of Trump’s execution spree, the families of the condemned share a particular trauma that few can understand.