Keith Tharpe is scheduled to be executed on September 26th in Georgia. His conviction and …

Ledell Lee was executed last night in Arkansas. Earlier this month, Arkansas promised to execute …

What is a fair punishment for boiling a man to death? Apparently, nothing. At least …

Criminal justice reform prospects for 2017 are bleak, at least at the federal level. Attorney …

Your smile could cost you your freedom. Just ask Crystal Weimer from Pennsylvania, or William …

The police shooting in Louisiana of Alton Sterling, a black man and father of five, …

Rodricus Crawford sits on Louisiana’s death row, awaiting execution for the murder of his one-year-old …

Eddie Lee Howard, Jr. has been on Mississippi’s death row for nearly two decades, convicted …

Plenty of people who commit non-violent drug crimes are sentenced to years, if not decades, …

Two different men. Two different states. Two drug convictions. Two prison sentences. Two exonerations. On …

The State of Missouri paid its “confidential execution staff” in cash-stuffed envelopes, full of $100 …

In December 2015, four men convicted of murder and arson in two completely unrelated cases …

FILE – In this Tuesday, May 27, 2008 file photo, the gurney used to restrain …

As I celebrate the holiday season surrounded by loving family and friends, my thoughts turn …

One late-October night in Alabama, sometime around 11:00pm, an 8 year old boy was left …

Three different states. Three arranged murders. Same unjustifiable death sentences. Kelly Gissendaner was executed this …