Will the Supreme Court Rethink Death Penalty Defendants’ Rights?
On a March evening last year, death penalty lawyers, scholars and trained investigators gathered in an Atlanta hotel room to ...
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Sean Finnegan learns fate in gruesome death of Jennifer Paxton
A Tennessee man convicted of savagely raping, torturing and killing a woman with his girlfriend has been sentenced to death, ...
Read moreHow Prosecutors Like Missouri’s Attorney General Try to Maintain Wrongful Convictions
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this ...
Read moreNews Inside Issue 17 Dives Into the Field of Death Penalty Mitigation
The pages of News Inside Issue 17. You can download the PDF here. The pages of News Inside Issue 17. ...
Read moreKamala Harris’ Complex Record as Prosecutor: What to Know
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Read moreA Death Row Prisoner’s Parting Interview
Additional reporting by Nakylah Carter and Keri Blakinger Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal justice system. ...
Read moreHow a Rapper Used a Death Row Phone to Record an Album in North Carolina
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Read moreShinji Aoba sentenced to death for arson attack at Japanese anime studio that killed 36
A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying ...
Read moreEerie final words of ‘vampire’ who killed 6-year-old girl
A Missouri death row inmate who claimed to be a vampire told the family of the 6-year-old girl he abducted ...
Read moreTexas man shot neighbor up to 30 times ‘execution-style’: report
A Texas man shot his neighbor up to 30 times in a merciless, execution-style killing so horrific that a judge ...
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