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December 16, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Is the death penalty dying?
December 4, 2015
Jonah Cohen, Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe
Saudi Arabia’s Depraved Justice
A Sri Lankan housemaid is soon to be stoned to death, as the world turns a blind eye.
November 3, 2015
Daniel LaChance
Death Row Prisoners Have Plenty of Time to Find God, But Few Find Mercy
June 29, 2015
Ben Crair
The Supreme Court Just Approved a Lethal Injection Drug that No One Understands
June 29, 2015
Tara Murtha
Capital Punishment Is Hard to Abolish. Pennsylvania’s Death Penalty Battle Shows Why.
June 29, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Justice Samuel Alito: Death Is Often Painful, So Why Shouldn't Lethal Injection Be?
June 19, 2015
Tim Starks
South Carolina's Complicated Relationship With the Death Penalty
June 16, 2015
Stephen Lurie
The Death Penalty Is Cruel. But So Is Life Without Parole.
May 20, 2015
Ben Crair
Lethal Entanglements
May 1, 2015
Jon Emont
“Welcome to Indonesia, Death Penalty for Drug Traffickers!”
Why the country's new president is executing more foreigners, despite international outrage
April 27, 2015
Petra Bartosiewicz
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Sentencing Is Putting Everyone Through Hell
March 6, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Catholic Church Opposes the Death Penalty. Why Don't White Catholics?
August 18, 2014
Ben Crair
Exclusive Emails Show Ohio's Doubts About Lethal Injection
The state worried new drugs could make prisoners "gasp" and "hyperventilate"—and used them anyway
July 24, 2014
Ben Crair
2014 Is Already the Worst Year in the History of Lethal Injection
Another day, another problematic execution
May 15, 2014
Lane Florsheim
How Texas Keeps Putting the Intellectually Disabled on Death Row
The Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional but gave states wiggle room
May 9, 2014
Lane Florsheim
Don't Trust Oklahoma's Death Penalty Panel
State reviews of executions are usually shams
May 2, 2014
Austin Sarat, Robert Henry Weaver, Heather Richard
Botched Executions Have Never Swayed Public Opinion. This Time Could Be Different.
April 30, 2014
Julia Fisher
Newspapers Around the World React to the Botched Execution in Oklahoma
April 30, 2014
Sam Kleiner
Clayton Lockett's Botched Execution Adds Credibility to Court Fight Over Drug Secrecy
April 30, 2014
Ben Crair
Cruel But Not Unusual
How Oklahoma botched Clayton Lockett's execution

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