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Anti-death penalty movement
Anti-death penalty movement news and analysis from The Nation
July 17, 2020
After 17 years, attorney General Bill Barr has resumed federal executions—and the conservatives on the Supreme Court approve.
February 17, 2020
Disappointed in her old boss, a former district attorney is running to be the Harris County district attorney on one of the most progressive platforms of 2020.
November 27, 2019
Tell your lawmaker to visit a prison; call on Congress to reduce excessive sentencing; and help people make bail.
September 12, 2019
“The death penalty has no place in a just society,” said Representative Ayanna Pressley. Tonight's Democratic debate in Texas presents the candidates with the chance to unify around that cause.
July 26, 2019
William Barr’s decision amounts to playing politics with death.
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April 3, 2019
In an appalling majority opinion, Gorsuch endorses pain-filled deaths for people subjected to capital punishment.
February 19, 2019
The case of an intellectually disabled prisoner on death row is a window into the many flaws in the death penalty in America.
March 13, 2018
He was the first person in the history of Alabama’s use of lethal injection to walk out of the execution chamber alive.
March 2, 2018
The State of Alabama was warned that its planned execution of Hamm would be painful and torturous. It kept going anyway.
November 10, 2017
Larry Krasner has pledged to fight mass incarceration, and activists say they’ll be watching.
