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What 120 Executions Tell Us About Criminal Justice in America

The Marshall Project tracked every execution in America for more than five years. For condemned people, the path to death grew longer, more winding and erratic.

Death Sentences • 02.10.2021

A Dispatch From Federal Death Row

Days before Daniel Lewis Lee became the first federal prisoner executed in 17 years, fellow death row resident Billie J. Allen wrote about the shared terror of wondering who’s next.

Life Inside • 07.16.2020

The Navajo Nation Opposed His Execution. The U.S. Plans to Do It Anyway.

How Lezmond Mitchell became the only Native American on federal death row.

Case in Point • 09.17.2019

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