Trials of Richard Glossip
The closer Oklahoma comes to killing Richard Glossip, the more reason there is to believe the state is about to execute an innocent man.
Trials of Richard Glossip
Relatives of the key witness who sent Richard Glossip to die say the state got the wrong story. Yet Oklahoma plans to execute him on September 16.
Trials of Richard Glossip
In a petition filed Friday, attorneys for three men on Oklahoma's death row show why each case reveals the death penalty to be cruel and unusual punishment.
Trials of Richard Glossip
Richard Glossip, the lead plaintiff in <em>Glossip v. Gross</em>, the Supreme Court decision that legalized a controversial form of lethal injection, now faces death — but he may well be innocent.
Alongside a flimsy majority opinion in <em>Glossip v. Gross</em>, Justice Breyer's dissent exposed just how much cruelty must be tolerated to defend the death penalty in 2015.
When Indiana sentenced Paula Cooper to die in 1986, she became the youngest person on death row and her case sparked a global movement.
As the Clintons publicly disavow “tough on crime” policies they once pushed, those who are still living with the consequences are skeptical.
Seven years after upholding lethal injection the U.S. Supreme Court once again confronts questions about the drugs the state uses in executions.
A Louisiana prosecutor apologized for sending an innocent man to die. Why not grant prisoners the same potential for change?
Playing With Fire
Twenty-three years ago, Garrett's girlfriend died in a fire. The state says he killed her. Fire scientists say the state is wrong.
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