May 2, 2025
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6 min read
What actual justice for a murdered firefighter/paramedic might look like, beyond empowering the same criminal justice system that failed him.
Apr 18, 2025
8 min read
President Trump's rhetoric and personnel decisions echo a conservative tendency to use the opioid crisis for its own ends rather than treating it like an issue of its own..
Apr 4, 2025
7 min read
Corinna Barrett Lain's "Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection" is a book the populace has sorely needed.
Mar 20, 2025
Death penalty proponents like to point to exonerations as proof the system works. If anything, they're yet another proof it's hopelessly broken.
Mar 7, 2025
With two firing squad executions scheduled this week, the idea that executions can be anything other than homicide by another name appears to be dying.
Feb 21, 2025
In Montana, Idaho and Louisiana, legislators give three very different signs that the most popular execution method's time may have passed.
Feb 6, 2025
Using nitrogen to execute inmates was touted as the ultimate solution to humane executions. Eyewitnesses and autopsies beg to differ.
Jan 24, 2025
The Trump administration has stopped lying about what execution drugs really are. What does it mean for the death penalty—and the rest of the Trump agenda?
Jan 17, 2025
*until next week
Jan 10, 2025
Synthetic cannabinoids have a nasty habit of showing up in American jails and prisons.
Jan 3, 2025
Updates, non-medical legal news, and things I'm tracking.
Dec 12, 2024
The state's plans for a "thorough and independent review" ended in an epistolary slapfight.
