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Death Penalty
Death Penalty news and analysis from The Nation
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April 4, 2019
Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty is the nation’s only anti–death penalty organization run by death-row prisoners.
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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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January 9, 2019
Sentenced to life in prison without parole as teenagers, these inmates never thought they’d be free—now they’re preparing for a life outside.
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July 19, 2018
This case is the last front in the long-running battle over the Bush-era torture regime.
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July 18, 2018
Madeleine Baran’s stunning investigative podcast grapples with our so-called “justice” system.
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March 22, 2018
Prosecutors across the country are already applying Trump’s “tough" approach through the use of drug-induced-homicide laws.
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March 15, 2018
Trump’s call to execute drug dealers is bizarre and irrational, but so is our criminal-justice system.
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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.
