by Lauren Pope — A woman is facing the death penalty. Her crime? Liking a post. Azar Yahoo, 38, was arrested in Mashhad by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and charged with “collaboration with a hostile state.” Her actual offense was placing heart stickers on social media posts and expressing joy over the reported death of Ali Khamenei. She is being held without a lawyer, without contact with her family, and without broad public knowledge of her situation. We can at leas

by Timothy Kirchoff — The recently-released film The Drama poses difficult questions: What is the worst thing you have ever done, and would other people be justified in rejecting you if they knew about it? (I will discuss the film’s plot in detail, so there will be spoilers.) The film explores these questions through a soon-to-be-married couple, Charlie (played by Robert Pattinson) and Emma (played by Zendaya). Early in the film, Emma and Charlie are with their Best Man and M

by Lauren Pope — My cousin Aaron was murdered. The last time anyone in my family saw him alive was when he came up to the hospital, high...

by Lauren Boyer — “No one could ever give me back what had already been taken from me. No one could erase that I had been raped, that I...

by Sean Wild — The room is thirty-six by thirty-six feet. This is your home, but not by choice. You’re stuck here, put here against your...

by Maria Oswalt — In March, I attended my first anti-death penalty vigil on the grounds of an execution site. After driving the hour from...

by Sophie Trist — During his 2020 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden promised to take concrete steps to abolish the federal death...

by Sean Wild — The state of Alabama wants to be the first to carry out an execution via nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama is one of three states...

by Judith Evans — An inmate is strapped to a chair and blindfolded. A white circle is placed on their chest, over the heart. Six...

by Sophie Trist — In what is becoming an increasingly disturbing pattern, Missouri is set to execute a man with a credible innocence...

Timed to coincide with the delivery of a new letter from Members of Congress to the Biden Administration’s Attorney General, Rev. Sharon...

by Sean Wild Cover image by Michael Starghill/The Marshall Project — On October 5, 2022, the state of Texas plans to execute John...

by Jack Champagne — Because justice delayed is justice denied, any cognizable claim of innocence asserted by an incarcerated person...

by Jack Champagne — When I first walked in to do my clinic hours for the Innocence Project, I was initiated with a heart-wrenching sexual...

by Sophie Trist — In the United States, the death penalty is generally used for those convicted of first-degree or premeditated murder,...

by Samuel B. Parker — On May 24th, the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency unanimously elected to deny Frank Atwood’s petition for...

by Judith Evans — Accountability and transparency are key elements in a fair criminal justice system, particularly for the rights of...

by Sophie Trist — On April 27, the state of Texas plans to execute Melissa Elizabeth Lucio, a Mexican-American mother of twelve, for a...

by Judith Evans — “Let’s do it.” Those were the last words spoken by Gary Gilmore, moments before his execution by a Utah firing squad on...

by Sophie Trist — On June 16, 1944, fourteen-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person to be legally executed in the United...