Death Penalty

Damien Echols of the West Memphis 3 discusses his ordeal during a screening of a new documentary about his case.

The US death penalty resembles little more than codified state-sponsored terror based on race and class.

Ongoing military commission hearings at Guantanamo Bay expose striking differences in defendants' rights and public transparency from usual federal court proceedings.

Maya Schenwar details her exchange with a prisoner on death row, striking right to the heart of what it means to be human.

In addition to Nebraska, 16 other states have already or are currently considering repeal bills this year.

Stephen John Hartnett (author of Executing Democracy): The roots of today's debate about capital punishment, prisons and guns goes back to pre-civil war religious ideas that slaves must be …

Death Row inmate William Van Poyck fights for his life by blogging his experience as he waits for lethal injection.

Journalists Martin Clancy and Tim O'Brien make the case that - for the poor in America - justice is still unaffordable.

n Detroit, on MLK Day, hundreds gathered to rally and protest against the persistent nightmares of inequality in urban cities nationwide.

Peter Dreier looks back at 2012 and 25 powerful progressive victories, including elections, ballot measures, court rulings, legislation and new waves of mobilization.