Clemency applicants have long understood that the end of Obama’s second term would be a race against time. But with Trump headed for the White House, it has become an emergency.
Even as the country moves steadily away from capital punishment, three states had the issue on the ballot this week.
Victims’ relatives take opposing sides in California’s election fight over the death penalty.
Trump’s insistence on the guilt of men who were exonerated is a form of denial that is prevalent in district attorneys’ offices around the country.
Five hundred people convened in Oakland last weekend for the first national conference of the Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement.
As Indonesia continues to execute groups of foreigners for drug crimes, the trauma reverberates across the globe.
Four years after the Department of Justice found that Memphis treated black juvenile offenders more harshly than their white peers, little has changed.
After Nebraska ended the death penalty last year, Gov. Pete Ricketts waged war against abolitionists. Who is he trying to punish?
Trials of Richard Glossip
Amid lingering doubts over Richard Glossip’s guilt, a new report slams the state’s bungled execution protocol while proposing new, improved ways to kill.
As Pfizer imposes a ban on using its products for execution, states continue to seek drugs in secret, from dubious sources.
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