A federal jury unanimously agreed on a death sentence after three hours of deliberation. Victims' families have expressed a range of reactions to the prospect of Roof's execution.
The unrepentant white supremacist has brought no defense in the face of heartbreaking testimony, clearing the way for prosecutors to send him to death row.
The government has admitted the vast injustice of mandatory minimums. So why is clemency reserved for a select few?
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.
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