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For years, the Supreme Court sent a consistent message about kids who commit the most serious crimes: They’re still kids. They can’t be executed. They can’t get life without parole

I'm sympathetic to all the arguments this piece makes about how the pandemic may undermine a host of defendants' constitutional rights. But man, this opening paragraph about how criminal cases

Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will meet to decide whether to consider the case of Phillip Tomlin, a man who served 14 years on Alabama's death row for a crime

I was recently in touch with A., a gentleman at Sing Sing who worked at the infirmary there. A friend of A's put us in touch because a pt in