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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

He’s Too Mentally Ill to Execute. Why Is He Still on Death Row After 45 Years?

Raymond Riles has been on death row longer than anyone in America. He’s one of many who have languished there for decades with severe mental illnesses.

Death Sentences • 02.04.2021

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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