News
April 30
The new ruling could worsen existing racial disparities in states that condemn teens to die in prison.
Death Sentences
April 15
A growing number of conservative lawmakers want to overhaul capital punishment, or end it.
Death Sentences
April 5
The men arrested in recent killings in Atlanta, Boulder, Colorado, and Orange, California, could face very different sentences if convicted.
Life Inside
April 1
I escaped Donald Trump’s last-minute execution spree. Now I have to find a way to keep fighting.
Death Sentences
February 10
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
February 4
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.
Looking Back
January 26
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.
Death Sentences
January 14
Feds spent millions to restart the death penalty and in the process revealed much about how they do it.
Death Sentences
January 8
Mental illness, childhood abuse and brain injuries affect a large share of those who face the death penalty.
News
November 8, 2020
Joe Biden ran on the most progressive criminal justice platform of any major party candidate in generations. So what can he actually do?