by Sean Wild — The room is thirty-six by thirty-six feet. This is your home, but not by choice. You’re stuck here, put here against your...

by Maria Oswalt — In March, I attended my first anti-death penalty vigil on the grounds of an execution site. After driving the hour from...

by Sophie Trist — During his 2020 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden promised to take concrete steps to abolish the federal death...

by Sean Wild — The state of Alabama wants to be the first to carry out an execution via nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama is one of three states...

by Judith Evans — An inmate is strapped to a chair and blindfolded. A white circle is placed on their chest, over the heart. Six...

by Sophie Trist — In what is becoming an increasingly disturbing pattern, Missouri is set to execute a man with a credible innocence...

Timed to coincide with the delivery of a new letter from Members of Congress to the Biden Administration’s Attorney General, Rev. Sharon...

by Sean Wild Cover image by Michael Starghill/The Marshall Project — On October 5, 2022, the state of Texas plans to execute John...

by Jack Champagne — Because justice delayed is justice denied, any cognizable claim of innocence asserted by an incarcerated person...

by Jack Champagne — When I first walked in to do my clinic hours for the Innocence Project, I was initiated with a heart-wrenching sexual...

by Sophie Trist — In the United States, the death penalty is generally used for those convicted of first-degree or premeditated murder,...

by Samuel B. Parker — On May 24th, the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency unanimously elected to deny Frank Atwood’s petition for...

by Judith Evans — Accountability and transparency are key elements in a fair criminal justice system, particularly for the rights of...

by Sophie Trist — On April 27, the state of Texas plans to execute Melissa Elizabeth Lucio, a Mexican-American mother of twelve, for a...

by Judith Evans — “Let’s do it.” Those were the last words spoken by Gary Gilmore, moments before his execution by a Utah firing squad on...

by Sophie Trist — On June 16, 1944, fourteen-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person to be legally executed in the United...

by Sarah Terzo — On October 28th, John Grant, 60, was executed in Oklahoma. Witnesses say the execution was botched, and that Grant...

Below are Aimee Murphy's remarks at the 2021 Vigil for Justice held by Rehumanize International and Death Penalty Action to honor the...

by Sophie Trist — On April 15, 2013, two bombs went off near the finish line of the 117th annual Boston Marathon, killing three people...

by Rana Irby — The fight against the death penalty in the United States has resurged since the resuming of federal executions in the last...