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What Can Death Row Prisoners Request Before They Die?
WEBSep 7, 2021 · The vast majority of American executions over the last half-century have been carried out through lethal injection, but several states have directed death row prisoners to pick how they will die. The exact laws vary, but in a handful of states, including Florida, Tennessee and Utah, prisoners have opted for electrocution or the firing squad.
My Life in the Supermax - The Marshall Project
WEBJan 8, 2016 · Inmates at the ADX are held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, and because of their crimes, many are never released. Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal justice system. But Travis Dusenbury, a 46-year-old from Lexington, N.C. who was locked up at the ADX for ten years, made it out.
The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag
WEBJun 8, 2020 · Before the flag came the phrase. The idea of a “thin blue line” can be traced all the way back to a 1854 British battle formation, a “thin red line” used during the Crimean War and then popularized in art, poetry and song. According to lawyers James Clapp and Elizabeth Thornburg, who have dug up the history behind popular phrases, the ...
I Got A Life Sentence At 17. Then I Was Raped In Prison.
WEBNov 1, 2018 · One day, he came into the office, which was located in the back of the barracks and had brown paper covering its windows. He locked the door, and he raped me. Then he told me to “get my ass back to work,” and left. In the following days and weeks, he regularly threatened me, telling me to keep my mouth shut or else.
Millions of People With Felonies Can Now Vote. Most Don’t Know It.
WEBJun 23, 2021 · Similar efforts to quantify voting rights restoration efforts for formerly incarcerated people have also shown low rates of registration. The Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times and ProPublica reported that only 80,000 of 1.4 million Floridians with felony convictions registered to vote in 2020.
How the Juvenile Detention Crisis Is 'Cruel and Unusual'
WEBAug 13, 2022 · In Texas, children and teens in the juvenile justice system are routinely locked in cells for all but 30 minutes a day, and nearly half are on suicide watch. This week, the director of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, the agency in charge of the state’s five juvenile prisons, told lawmakers the system is on the verge of collapse.
I Wasn’t a Superpredator. I Was a Kid Who Made a Terrible Decision.
WEBNov 20, 2020 · I Was a Kid Who Made a Terrible Decision. In 1994, at age 14, Derrick Hardaway took part in the murder of an 11-year-old. The media used the crime to build the myth of the superpredator—and stuck him with a label he’s still trying to shed. Filed 6:00 a.m. EST. 11.20.2020.
What to Know About the Rise in U.S. Mass Shootings
WEBNov 1, 2023 · The Violence Project counted eight mass shootings in 2021, and seven in 2022. As mass shootings in the U.S. reached a record high, so did the number of deaths and injuries. From 2018 to 2022, perpetrators killed 257 people — close to the 266 fatalities in the five-year period that ended in 2017, and significantly more than any previous period.
Life Without Parole Is Replacing the Death Penalty — But the Legal ...
WEBMay 22, 2021 · Life-without-parole sentences are steadily replacing the death penalty across the United States. Almost 56,000 people nationwide are now serving sentences that will keep them locked up until they die, an increase of 66% since 2003, according to The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit that advocates for shorter prison terms. By comparison, only 2,500 people nationally are on death row according to ...