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.
May 2, 2025
What actual justice for a murdered firefighter/paramedic might look like, beyond empowering the same criminal justice system that failed him.
Apr 18, 2025
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
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.
