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Joe Biden is the first president in U.S. history to openly campaign on abolishing the death penalty and win. Now that he’s in the White House, pressure is already mounting from activists and lawmakers for him to fulfill that promise. Pointing to the more than 160 Americans who’ve been exonerated from death sentences since 1973,…

Many have been possibly identified by others online in a fervent effort to bring the perpetrators to justice

If Alfred Bourgeois is executed Friday, he'll be the 10th person executed by the Trump administration since July

The disclosure of an alleged attempt to purchase a pardon comes as Donald Trump’s presidential term winds to an end, traditionally a time when pardons are meted out

For many Americans, one of the more pressing domestic issues a Biden-Harris administration needs to tackle upon their inauguration in January is that of criminal justice and police reform. A hot-button issue during much of the presidential campaign, calls for action at the federal level have been at the front of public consciousness since the…

Amid an election cycle that has seen notable criminal justice wins—like the restoration of voting rights for people on parole in California and moves toward greater police oversight—voters in a Georgia city ousted a District Attorney who was heavily criticized for her handling of an investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s murder. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man,…

Voters approved measures to restore voting rights to tens of thousands of people on parole, reign in the power of several police departments and ease drug laws