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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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Jun 7, 20213 min read

Bullets or Zyklon B? States Bring Back Brutal Execution Methods

by Sophie Trist — Even as support for capital punishment reaches its lowest point in forty years, some states are so eager to kill their...

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May 30, 20212 min read

Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional in Malawi

by Rana Irby — The death penalty has now been ruled unconstitutional in the African nation of Malawi. In a monumental decision made this...

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May 13, 20213 min read

Innocence and the Death Penalty

by Sophie Trist — In April of 2017, the state of Arkansas likely executed an innocent man. Recently-tested evidence from the 1993 murder...

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Apr 28, 20212 min read

Racial Disparities in the Death Penalty

by Julia Smucker — In 1998, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) released an extensive report demonstrating “the infectious...

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Apr 26, 20213 min read

Traffic Stops and Police Brutality: Reflecting on the Death of Daunte Wright

by Katherine Noble — Daunte Wright was shot and killed on Sunday, April 11th, by a Minnesota police officer. Wright was a father of a...

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Apr 2, 20213 min read

"Time": A Documentary That Rehumanizes Mass Incarceration

by Sophie Trist — Garrett Bradley’s 81-minute documentary Time, available on Amazon Prime, tells the story of New Orleans prison...

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Mar 15, 20213 min read

Police Reform Legislation: A First Step to Dismantling Systemic Racism

by Sophie Trist — Six months ago, George Floyd’s brutal murder at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin ripped open old...

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Mar 2, 20212 min read

Biden’s Promise to Close Guantanamo Bay

by Katherine Noble — President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki has said it is the intention of the Biden administration to close...

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Feb 26, 20214 min read

"13th" Shines a Light on the Lasting Effects of Slavery

by Christy Yao — Editor's note: citations for the statistics referenced in this article can be found in the documentary 13th. — 13th is a...

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Feb 9, 20214 min read

The Rich Historical Tradition of Black Anti-Death Penalty Activism

by Sophie Trist — From anti-slavery abolitionism to today, Black activists have played a central role in the fight to end capital...

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Feb 2, 20214 min read

Solitary Confinement Amounts to Cruel and Unusual Torture

by Sophie Trist — Many people are familiar with the tragic story of Kalief Browder, a Black teenager from New York City who was arrested...

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Jan 27, 20216 min read

The Trump Administration’s Killing Spree

by Katherine Noble — Though the Biden-Harris administration has now taken on the task of running the American government, our country...

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Jan 20, 20214 min read

Justice in the Biden-Harris Administration

by Katherine Noble — Our nation spent the better part of this summer in upheaval. Protests became a daily part of life as people took to...

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Jan 18, 20213 min read

"Who Built the Cages?": Immigration Under Biden

by Mikhayla Stover — Her name was Mariee Juárez. Mariee and her mother Yazmin were forced to flee Guatemala in 2018. At the time, Mariee...

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Dec 9, 20203 min read

Reflection and Call to Action for International Human Rights Day

by Sophie Trist — On December 10, the world will celebrate International Human Rights Day, marking seventy-two years since the United...

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Dec 2, 20203 min read

How A Novel Changed My Mind on the Death Penalty

by Sophie Trist — Like most American teenagers, I didn't spend much time thinking about the death penalty. The few times capital...

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Nov 6, 20203 min read

Nonviolent De-escalation Techniques for Mental Health Emergencies

by Katherine Noble — Two Philadelphia police officers shot Walter Wallace Jr., a Black man, on October 26th. Wallace was medicated for...

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Nov 3, 20205 min read

Rejecting the Violence of the Two-Party Duopoly

by Aimee Murphy — The pro-life movement began largely in left-leaning Democrat circles. The early pro-life activists’ understanding of...

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Oct 26, 20202 min read

Forced Surgeries on Intersex Children Are a Human Rights Violation

by Katherine Noble — In our society, we are often taught that everything fits into a binary system. There is good and bad, black and...

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