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Supreme Court Holds Georgia Prosecutors Illegally Removed Black Jurors in Death Penalty Case

Tough-on-Crime Judge With Decades of Experience Questions Constitutionality of the Death Penalty

Investigation Shows Inequality in School Funding Is a Legacy of Racial Injustice

Alabama Judges Ignoring Jury Verdicts Leads to Nation's Highest Death Sentencing Rate

Supreme Court Affirms Stay of Execution for Vernon Madison

Vernon Madison Granted a Stay of Execution By Eleventh Circuit

State of Alabama Seeks to Execute Elderly, Incompetent Man Despite His Jury's Verdict for Life

Alabama Man Formerly on Death Row Is Sentenced to Life

Gary Tyler Released from Louisiana Prison After 41 Years

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Alabama Death Penalty Must Be Re-Examined

Incarceration of Refugee Children and Families

Data Shows Affluent Black Kids Are More Likely to Be Incarcerated Than Poor White Kids

Obama Administration Proposes New Approaches to Reduce Incarceration

Federal Court Reverses Death Sentence Because of South Carolina Prosecutor's Racially Biased Arguments

Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill Requiring Preservation of Biological Evidence in Death Penalty Cases

Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights to More Than 200,000 Formerly Incarcerated People