Tag: death penalty

    Supreme Court Blocks Alabama Bid to Proceed With Banned Nitrogen Execution

    On June 11 the Supreme Court received, and subsequently rejected, a request from the ...

    GOP Eyes Death Penalty for Fentanyl Sale, as DOJ Calls for More Executions

    Under a proposed amendment to the Controlled Substances Act, defendants in federal overdose cases ...

    Media Fights for Access to Executions, But Not the Rest of the Prison System

    In April, the Tennessee Supreme Court temporarily blocked a ruling that would allow journalists ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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- ...

    “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 ...

    Photographing the Community on Tennessee’s Death Row

    From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the Tennessee ...

    A Death Row Pastor’s View of Executions

    From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, ...

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