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The Mercy Workers

For three decades, a little-known group of “mitigation specialists” has helped save death-penalty defendants by documenting their childhood traumas. A rare look inside one case.

Feature • 03.02.2023

Living With Survivor’s Guilt on Federal Death Row

I escaped Donald Trump’s last-minute execution spree. Now I have to find a way to keep fighting.

Life Inside • 04.01.2021

The Case That Made Texas the Death Penalty Capital

In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Marshall Project staff writer Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong.

Looking Back • 01.26.2021

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