Death penalty proponents like to point to exonerations as proof the system works. If anything, they're yet another proof it's hopelessly broken.
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.
In Montana, Idaho and Louisiana, legislators give three very different signs that the most popular execution method's time may have passed.
Using nitrogen to execute inmates was touted as the ultimate solution to humane executions. Eyewitnesses and autopsies beg to differ.
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?
*until next week
Synthetic cannabinoids have a nasty habit of showing up in American jails and prisons.
Updates, non-medical legal news, and things I'm tracking.
The state's plans for a "thorough and independent review" ended in an epistolary slapfight.
Governor Katie Hobbs hired former federal magistrate David Duncan to make lethal injection humane. She fired him for concluding—like many others—that it can't be done.
How artificial limits and antiscientific thinking from the nation's drug warriors endanger patient care.
A counterintuitive—but evidence-based—reason for Roberson's innocence claims.
