U.S. Sees 200th Person Exonerated from Death Row
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...
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Jun 254 min read
Witness against the Horror: Standing Vigil at an Execution
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...
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Mar 222 min read
The Federal Government Seeks the Death Penalty for a Mass Shooter, Breaking President Biden’s Campaign Promise
by Sophie Trist — During his 2020 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden promised to take concrete steps to abolish the federal death...
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Jan 173 min read
Alabama Set to Use Untested Execution Method
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...
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Mar 27, 20234 min read
Idaho Legislators Reinstate Firing Squads
by Judith Evans — An inmate is strapped to a chair and blindfolded. A white circle is placed on their chest, over the heart. Six...
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Feb 3, 20232 min read
Stop the Execution of Leonard “Raheem” Taylor
by Sophie Trist — In what is becoming an increasingly disturbing pattern, Missouri is set to execute a man with a credible innocence...
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Jan 7, 20237 min read
Hundreds of Organizations Urge President, AG to Halt Federal & Military Death Penalty
Timed to coincide with the delivery of a new letter from Members of Congress to the Biden Administration’s Attorney General, Rev. Sharon...
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Oct 4, 20223 min read
Mercy For John Ramirez
by Sean Wild Cover image by Michael Starghill/The Marshall Project — On October 5, 2022, the state of Texas plans to execute John...
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Aug 22, 20224 min read
Unheard Pleas for Mercy
by Jack Champagne — Because justice delayed is justice denied, any cognizable claim of innocence asserted by an incarcerated person...
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Jun 30, 20224 min read
Reflections on Shinn v. Ramirez
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...
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Jun 4, 20223 min read
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam and the Gross Injustice of Capital Punishment for Nonviolent Drug Offenses
by Sophie Trist — In the United States, the death penalty is generally used for those convicted of first-degree or premeditated murder,...
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Jun 1, 20224 min read
Arizona Set to Execute Frank Atwood Despite Possibility of Innocence
by Samuel B. Parker — On May 24th, the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency unanimously elected to deny Frank Atwood’s petition for...
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Mar 3, 20223 min read
Idaho Bill Would Hide Identities of Lethal Injection Drug Suppliers
by Judith Evans — Accountability and transparency are key elements in a fair criminal justice system, particularly for the rights of...
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Feb 11, 20223 min read
Texas Is About to Put an Innocent Mom to Death
by Sophie Trist — On April 27, the state of Texas plans to execute Melissa Elizabeth Lucio, a Mexican-American mother of twelve, for a...
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Jan 15, 20222 min read
It's Time to Abolish the Death Penalty
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...
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Jan 12, 20223 min read
George Stinney Fund Will Provide Reparations for the Families of Those Wrongfully Executed in South
by Sophie Trist — On June 16, 1944, fourteen-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person to be legally executed in the United...
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Dec 8, 20214 min read
Horrific Botched Execution in Oklahoma Shows Death Penalty’s Cruelty
by Sarah Terzo — On October 28th, John Grant, 60, was executed in Oklahoma. Witnesses say the execution was botched, and that Grant...
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Oct 12, 20216 min read
Aimee Murphy's Remarks at the Vigil for Justice
Below are Aimee Murphy's remarks at the 2021 Vigil for Justice held by Rehumanize International and Death Penalty Action to honor the...
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Oct 8, 20213 min read
The Supreme Court Should Not Reinstate the Death Penalty for the Boston Marathon Bomber
by Sophie Trist — On April 15, 2013, two bombs went off near the finish line of the 117th annual Boston Marathon, killing three people...
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Jun 11, 20212 min read
Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act Re-introduced in Congress
by Rana Irby — The fight against the death penalty in the United States has resurged since the resuming of federal executions in the last...
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