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Feb 22, 2024

Challenging the Racist Death Penalty in North Carolina

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Feb 22, 2024

This Case Could Upend the Death Penalty In North Carolina

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Jan 2, 2024

Another Year of America's Failed Experiment: The Death Penalty in 2023

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Apr 14, 2023

We're Challenging the Racist Practice That Excludes Black Jurors from Death Penalty Cases

Jan 20, 2023

To Root Out Racism in the Criminal Legal System, We Can鈥檛 Fear Too Much Justice

Aug 30, 2022

The Sinister and Racist Practice Infecting Death Penalty Juries

Apr 21, 2022

Documents Reveal Confusion and Lack of Training in Texas Execution

Protestors holding a banner with the text "Don't kill for me...Stop executions."

Feb 2, 2021

Atrocities of the Federal Death Penalty

Protestors holding a banner that reads "Stop the Death Penalty" in front on Georgia's State Capital on a sunny day in 2017. Colorado just won a major feat for anti-death penalty movement with its decision to repeal the death penalty in the state.

Feb 27, 2020

鈥淒o Not Kill in My Name鈥� 鈥� How Colorado Finally Repealed the Death Penalty

Dec 13, 2019

The Death Penalty in 2019: A Year of Incredible Progress, Marred by Unconscionable Executions

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News & Commentary about Racial Disparities and the Death Penalty