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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Aug 125 min read
Review of Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change
by Alexander Pyles — When thinking of the criminal justice system, we immediately hear Law & Order lines: “...the people are represented...
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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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Jun 85 min read
Crackdown on Campus: The Harsh Response to Pro-Palestinian Protests
by John Whitehead — The Gaza war continues to make itself felt in the United States, most notably in a wave of protests and...
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May 224 min read
European Court Rules Climate Protection a Human Right in Switzerland
by Sean Wild — A group of more than 2,000 Swiss women have sued and won against the Swiss government for not taking enough precautions...
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Mar 265 min read
Jennifer Crumbley and the Question of Who Should Be Held Accountable in Mass Shootings
by Jack Champagne — For anyone who grew up in the ‘90s, the defining event of random, mass acts of gun violence was the shooting at...
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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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Sep 28, 20233 min read
Lifting a Terrible Burden: The Need to End Sanctions on Afghanistan
by John Whitehead — More than two years after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the Afghan people’s situation remains dire. The...
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May 3, 20234 min read
What Do Abortion Bans Really Ban?
by Grattan Brown, STD — State abortion bans frighten the general public, anger abortion advocates, and encourage pro-life advocates. But...
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May 1, 20234 min read
The State of the Union
by Jack Champagne — Predictably, the 2023 State of the Union was overwhelmed by the effort to sell economic successes to an American...
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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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Mar 25, 20232 min read
Justice for the Five: One Year Later
by Liliana Zamora — One year ago, on March 25, 2022, 115 deceased infants were discovered by Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU)...
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Mar 13, 20233 min read
Remembering Judy Heumann: Humanizing People with Disabilities and Telling Our Stories
by Sophie Trist — For most of human history, people with physical and mental disabilities have been killed, institutionalized,...
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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 12, 20233 min read
Twenty-One Years of GITMO: The Spotted History and Practices of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
by Sean Wild — January 11, 2023, marked the anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, commonly known as GITMO....
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Jan 11, 20235 min read
159 Organizations Sign Onto Letter Demanding President Biden Close Guantánamo
Rehumanize International was among 159 organizations that signed onto a letter sent to President Biden urging him to prioritize closing...
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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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Dec 3, 20223 min read
Iranian Government Poised to Use Mass Executions to Quell Deepening Unrest
by Samuel B. Parker — In November, an Islamic Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced a protester to death in a judicial proceeding that...
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Nov 28, 20224 min read
“Our Artworks are Parts of Ourselves”: The Unresolved Status of Art by Guantánamo Bay Detainees
by John Whitehead — The US prison at Guantánamo Naval Base, Cuba, remains a significant unresolved legacy of the Global War on Terrorism...
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