A recent report issued by The Sentencing Project contends that felony murder statutes significantly contribute to mass incarceration and racial disparities within the U.S. criminal legal system, thereby prompting renewed calls for nationwide policy reform.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the state’s requirement of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for all second-degree murder convictions is unconstitutional, potentially affecting the legal futures of over 1,000 people and requiring lawmakers to confront the limits of punishment in the state’s criminal legal system.
RALEIGH, NC – North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s recent decision to commute 15 death sentences to life…
By Shriya Kali Chittapuram WASHINGTON, DC – Recently, The Sentencing Project published “The Second Look Movement: A…
SANTA CLARA, CA – A prosecutor here in Santa Clara County—once a big believer in capital punishment…
By The Vanguard Staff MONTGOMERY, AL – The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of…
By Leslie Acevedo and Vaiva Utaraite SACRAMENTO, CA – A former prisoner sentenced to life without parole…
By Ricky Ortega Life without parole; free falling into the black hole of prison life. It’s where…
By Samuel Van Blaricom WOODLAND, CA – Chandale Shannon, Jr., accused of two counts of first degree…
By Kritika Singh WASHINGTON, DC — In a 6-3 decision last month, the United States Supreme Court…
(This article was written by my client, Samuel P. Redmond III, who has served twenty years of…
by Vaidya Gullapalli Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board looked at two overlapping injustices in Pennsylvania: the large number…
By Vaidya Gullapalli In Pennsylvania, the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration is calling for an end…
By Jennifer Turner I first met Alice Marie Johnson in April 2013. Seeking to tell the stories…
Robert Hodges was, by all accounts, a loving family man who suddenly last September killed his three…
Yesterday’s article that we re-published from the ACLU asks: “Does the Constitution allow a teenager to be…
Last week, we discussed the state of life without parole for juvenile offenders, as Daniel Marsh was…
Judge David Reed on Friday issued the maximum possible sentence of 52 years to life to Daniel…
On Monday, William Gardner was sentenced to life without parole for the 2013 killing of Leslie Pinkston….