Gone are the days when people were publicly hanged for their crimes, but we don’t live in a better society. The Death Penalty Information Center notes that there are over 2,800 peo... Read more
CNN’s “Death Row Stories” focused on Bastrop County in a recent episode that fleshed out the complex 1996 slaying of Stacey Stites and the decadeslong murder trial of Rodney Reed. Read more
Anthony Ray Hinton endured almost three decades behind bars, wrongly convicted by Alabama’s racist judiciary system. Here, he tells his incredible story of his years detained on Al... Read more
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police across Canada since the year 2000, and a substantial majority suffered from mental health problems or symptoms of drug abus... Read more
Crowds grew silent Wednesday evening as bells rang out 39 times in Atlanta and Memphis, Tennessee, to mark the age of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the time of his assassinati... Read more
Activist Kimberly Davis came to UNC's campus Monday night to speak about her family’s long struggle to prove the innocence of her brother, who was executed by the state of Georgia... Read more
Relatives, activists and Sacramento officials are questioning why police shot at an unarmed black man 20 times, killing him, when he turned out to be holding only a cellphone in hi... Read more
Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said Friday appointing a special prosecutor in the 2004 death of Michael E. Bell would be unwarranted. The shooting was ruled just... Read more
