Jan 23, 2026
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7 min read
State Representative Jim Lucas plays with rhetorical trickery—and the occasional outright falsehood—to sell the killing state's next big thing.
Dec 26, 2025
The Trump Administration continues to use deaths from fentanyl overdoses to justify pre-existing policy preferences while neglecting evidence-based ways to reduce them.
Oct 31, 2025
6 min read
But don't expect them to conclude anything from that fact.
Oct 17, 2025
8 min read
Information on the state's recently restarted executions—where media witnesses aren't allowed—is scarce and self-contradictory.
Sep 19, 2025
A police union gave a light-on-details accusation of near-fatal EMS negligence. The science suggests it's more complicated than that.
Aug 22, 2025
9 min read
Paul House was at once a compelling testament to the work of the innocence movement and a damning indictment of the system that forces it to exist.
Aug 8, 2025
Byron Black's botched execution likely wasn't due to a new wrinkle in lethal injection's impossible ethics, but business as usual for the killing state.
Jul 25, 2025
Can Tennessee find someone to turn off Black's implanted pacemaker so they can kill him?
Jul 11, 2025
The right to protest may soon depend on whether you can survive how the government intends to suppress it.
Jun 27, 2025
The state spent $600,000 on drugs that won't be used.
Jun 13, 2025
A confrontation between police and protesters appears to show a bewildering dereliction of duty.
May 16, 2025
Ignoring drug manufacturers' opposition to the death penalty forces them into expensive extra monitoring, litigation, and supply chain cutoffs.
