Geography Is King
The men arrested in recent killings in Atlanta, Boulder, Colorado, and Orange, California, could face very different sentences if convicted.
Maurice Chammah is the author of Let the Lord Sort Them Out: The Rise and Fall of thr Death Penalty. He is a journalist and staff writer for The Marshall Project, and his reporting on the criminal justice system has been published by The New Yorker,The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, and Mother Jones. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he and his wife Emily Chammah co-organize The Insider Prize, a fiction and essay contest for incarcerated writers sponsored by American Short Fiction.
LOSING GROUND
Death penalty support is wide rather than deep, even among conservatives in deep red states.
Almost Invisible
The case of the first federal prisoner to die from COVID-19 epitomizes national debates about criminal justice reform.
STRONG STUFF
Medical professionals say the state’s new lethal injection protocol “doesn’t make much sense.”