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Death Penalty
Death Penalty news and analysis from The Nation
November 27, 2019
Tell your lawmaker to visit a prison; call on Congress to reduce excessive sentencing; and help people make bail.
October 7, 2019
As the term begins, the conservatives are sharpening their knives—and LGBTQ rights, abortion, and gun control are all on the chopping block.
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.
August 16, 2019
When my relative stabbed PM Hendrik Verwoerd to death, he was described as a “madman”—but he was really trying to bring down apartheid.
July 26, 2019
William Barr’s decision amounts to playing politics with death.
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July 15, 2019
How the 45th president has packed the courts with ultraconservatives—and reshaped the judiciary for a generation.
June 10, 2019
Duterte will take control of Congress, but his quest for more power must be stopped.
April 4, 2019
Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty is the nation’s only anti–death penalty organization run by death-row prisoners.
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.
