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October 8, 2024
“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions
Lauren Gill
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September 24, 2024
In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions
Lauren Gill
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Daniel Moritz-Rabson
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July 24, 2024
Before Executing a Muslim Man, Alabama Denied Many of His Final Religious Requests
Lauren Gill
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April 19, 2024
Landry’s Power Play Over Public Defense in Louisiana
Lauren Gill
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March 15, 2024
In Cleveland Prosecutor’s Office, a Long Trail of Death Sentences and Wrongful Convictions
Lauren Gill
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January 24, 2024
Under the Shadow of the Extreme Case
Piper French
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January 10, 2024
Louisiana Organizers Brace for Landry
Piper French
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December 11, 2023
Inside the Urgent Campaign to Commute North Carolina’s Entire Death Row
Kelan Lyons
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October 6, 2023
Western Pennsylvania Prosecutor Makes His County an Epicenter for the Death Penalty
Lauren Gill
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July 18, 2023
Alabama Failed to Carry Out Its Last Two Executions. It’s Trying Again This Week.
Lauren Gill
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Daniel Moritz-Rabson
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July 17, 2023
The Death Penalty on Trial in Louisiana
Piper French
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April 26, 2023
Exonerees Sound the Alarm on New Florida Law Allowing Death Sentences by Split Juries
Lauren Gill
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March 22, 2023
In Pennsylvania’s 2023 DA Races, There’s Already a Winner: Unopposed Prosecutors
Daniel Nichanian
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December 20, 2022
Landmark Push for Clemency in Oregon and Nevada Show Split Paths on Death Penalty
Chris Geidner
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June 14, 2022
Utah Prosecutor Tests GOP Appetite for Opposing the Death Penalty
Lauren Gill
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February 14, 2022
DA Candidate Vows to End Death Sentences In Las Vegas, a Capital Punishment Stronghold
Sam Mellins
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June 10, 2021
Norfolk Elects Prosecutor Who Says Crime Is a “Symptom of Structural Racism”
Daniel Nichanian
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May 7, 2021
Nevada Prosecutors Are Standing in the Way of Abolishing the Death Penalty
Daniel Nichanian
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March 24, 2021
Virginia Becomes the First Southern State to Abolish the Death Penalty
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
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December 9, 2020
Newly Elected Prosecutors Are Challenging the Death Penalty
Daniel Nichanian
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September 25, 2020
In Colorado’s D.A. Races, Disagreements Abound on Criminal Justice Reform
Daniel Nichanian
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September 15, 2020
Cincinnati Is an Epicenter for the Death Penalty. Its Prosecutor Race Could End That in November.
Rachel M. Cohen
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March 23, 2020
Colorado Abolishes the Death Penalty and Ends Prison Gerrymandering
Daniel Nichanian
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December 20, 2019
From Marijuana to the Death Penalty, States Led the Way in 2019
Daniel Nichanian
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August 7, 2019
With New Law, Oregon Joins Wave of States Restricting or Halting the Death Penalty
Daniel Nichanian
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May 30, 2019
New Hampshire Abolishes the Death Penalty
Daniel Nichanian
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March 14, 2019
States Move to Halt the Death Penalty
Daniel Nichanian
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February 21, 2019
Bill to Abolish the Death Penalty Fails in Wyoming
Daniel Nichanian
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December 6, 2018
Looming Appointments Could Alter Florida Supreme Court’s Sentencing Outlook
Daniel Nichanian
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November 14, 2018
New Hampshire Inches Closer to Abolishing the Death Penalty
Daniel Nichanian
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September 5, 2024
The Final Primaries of 2024
Daniel Nichanian
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June 1, 2024
County Boards and the Crisis Inside Local Jails
February 27, 2024
Your Guide to What’s on the Ballot on Super Tuesday
Daniel Nichanian
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February 14, 2024
Who Is Running for District Attorney in Texas in 2024?