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How can I not cry out for justice for Fair Wayne Bryant, a 62-year-old African American man whose life sentence for stealing hedge clippers was just upheld by the Louisiana

In his new encyclical letter Fratelli Tutti, @Pontifex writes that the death penalty is a "false answer" that "does not resolve the problems [it is] meant to solve" and introduces

Gov. @GavinNewsom signed several important racial justice bills into law today. These new laws are important steps toward improving the fairness of California’s justice system and beginning to right some

My Statement on the Federal Government’s Execution of Wesley Purkey:It’s become increasingly clear this week that the federal government has gone rogue, executing our fellow citizens in violation of the

Victims’ families are not served by these federal executions. They’re told to just wait a few decades and then they’ll finally get “justice.” The truth, as explained by many families,

The federal government is trying to execute Wesley Purkey even though he has advanced Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and severe brain damage. Wesley is not mentally competent and it would be

I saw the video. I made myself watch the full atrocity, hearing George Floyd’s hoarse whisper, “I can’t breathe,” to Officer Derek Chauvin, pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck for

Today’s SCOTUS decision in Ramos v. Louisiana is complicated. Different combinations of Justices agreed on different issues. The most important outcome is that it is now a constitutional rule that

Jesus did not ask for any kind of vengeance against the people who killed him on #GoodFriday. I've learned from the families of murder victims that the whole idea of

A Brooklyn judge held a full calendar call on March 12th. When a lawyer raised concerns about the lack of social distancing in the courtroom, the judge said, “If you

#RodneyReed was accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl during the sentencing phase of his murder trial in 1998. This is, of course, a very disturbing allegation, but there were

Another strange development in #RodneyReed's case. The judge who has been presiding over Rodney's case in Bastrop County retired in August, but is somehow still assigned to Rodney's case. There