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Anti-death penalty movement
Anti-death penalty movement news and analysis from The Nation
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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.
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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.
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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.
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March 2, 2018
The State of Alabama was warned that its planned execution of Hamm would be painful and torturous. It kept going anyway.
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November 10, 2017
Larry Krasner has pledged to fight mass incarceration, and activists say they’ll be watching.
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November 12, 2016
Local prosecutor and sheriff races are winnable and build power.
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November 7, 2016
Devon Anderson has a troubling record, and voters may dismiss her tomorrow.
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October 4, 2016
The GOP has launched a “Willie Horton”–style racist attack ad—and tonight is Kaine’s chance to destroy it.
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May 31, 2016
Timothy Foster got justice, but prosecutors still have wide leeway to exclude black jurors.
