Sabrina-Butler Smith lives in Memphis and serves on the board of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Thirty-four years ago, I was a Black teenage mother living on my own in Mississippi.

Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach shows an image of a spot of blood that contradicted the narrative that led to Robert Roberson's conviction in his daughter's death. Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer For ...

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In detective novels and television crime dramas like CSI, the nation's morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science.

In the 1920s and 30s, a stark white-on-black banner would sometimes appear in front of NAACP headquarters in Manhattan. It read simply, “A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY.” The proliferating southern NAACP ...

Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State. But Ohio’s thoughtful and respected chief executive has yet to say what he ...

Last year saw a “sharp hike” in the number of executions carried out around the world, according to UN Human Rights, despite the overall global trend continuing to move towards universal abolition. In ...