News | Politics & Elections Supreme Court Reinstates Boston Marathon Bomber’s Death Penalty Sentence A circuit court ruling in 2020 noted several evidentiary and jury selection issues during Tsarnaev's sentencing. By Chris Walker , Truthout March 4, 2022 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing The Supreme Court Just Allowed the Executions of Two Disabled Black Men Donald Grant and Matthew Reeves were executed after failing to “choose” their own method of death, activists say. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout January 28, 2022 Truthout
News Analysis | Human Rights It’s Time for Biden to Fulfill His Pledge to End the Federal Death Penalty Aside from a 2021 moratorium on federal executions, the Biden administration hasn’t taken any steps to end the practice. By Alice Kim , Truthout January 23, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing I Survived Death Row, But I’ll Never Escape It During my 13 years on death row, I saw 12 people executed at the hands of the state. I can’t describe the horror I felt. By Renaldo Hudson , Truthout December 4, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Advocates Demand Stay of Execution for Julius Jones in Oklahoma Advocates in Oklahoma are rallying outside the barricaded governor’s mansion ahead of the planned Thursday execution. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! November 17, 2021 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing A Decade After the Execution of Troy Davis, 24 States Still Use Death Penalty 11 of the 13 states in the South still have the death penalty on the books despite declining national support. By Rebekah Barber , FacingSouth September 26, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing DOJ Suspends Federal Executions — But Activists Say Biden Should Go Further The moratorium on federal executions doesn't end the death penalty, which Biden campaigned on doing in 2020. By Chris Walker , Truthout July 2, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Ayanna Pressley Calls Out Biden’s DOJ for Moving to Reinstate the Death Penalty The representative sharply criticized the death penalty, calling it “state-sanctioned murder.” By Sharon Zhang , Truthout June 16, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing South Carolina Can Now Execute People on Death Row by Firing Squad Opponents of the new law decried it, saying the death penalty should be banned outright given its racist history. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 17, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing South Carolina Poised to Be Fourth State to Allow Death Penalty by Firing Squad The state has 37 people on death row. Three are out of appeals and in line to be executed. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 6, 2021 Truthout