death penalty

Georgia’s Death Penalty Reform Bill Has an Odd View on Life Sentences

Georgia is on the brink of reforming its death penalty law for intellectually disabled defendants, a move being heralded as…

April 18, 2025

Saudi Arabia a Key Driver of 2024 Global Surge in Executions for Drugs

Saudi Arabia executed at least 122 people for drug-related convictions in 2024, its highest known total. At the end of…

March 12, 2025

Trump’s Backing of Death Penalty for Drug Sales Has Wide Consequences

At a meeting with state governors, President Donald Trump repeated a favorite theme of his—saying that states should put people…

February 25, 2025

US Continues to Spend Billions on Drug War in Lower-Income Countries

United States taxpayers continue to fund a destructive and deadly drug war in low- and middle-income countries across the world,…

December 5, 2024

“War on Cartels” and Harm Reduction in Peril—Drug Policy Under Trump

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed, and could soon have the authority to make that happen. The…

November 14, 2024

Photographing the Community on Tennessee’s Death Row

From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the Tennessee prison that houses death row for…

October 29, 2024

A Death Row Pastor’s View of Executions

From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, the site of death row…

October 21, 2024

Confirmed Executions for Drug Convictions Surge to New Global High

In July 2016, three Nigerians and one Indonesian were ferried to Nusa Kambangan, known as the “island of flowers,” off…

April 2, 2024

“Fifty Years Just Ain’t Enough”: Dying in Prison, and Still Denied Release

Donald Snook, 70, has 38 plants in his cell in Washington Corrections Center (WCC). It looks like a jungle. There’s…

February 14, 2024

Worldwide Executions for Drugs More Than Doubled in 2022

Worldwide executions for drug convictions have surged, more than doubling in 2022 compared with 2021. The sharp rise follows two…

April 4, 2023