The Trump administration in May quietly altered an obscure prison policy that could give the Department of Justice more power to punish the president’s enemies and reward his allies. A revised Bureau ...

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Reem Akkad, formerly a top editor at The Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers the U.S. criminal justice ...

There is no tidy way to kill someone. But for the last century, Americans have searched for a way to carry out the death penalty that minimizes suffering while lessening trauma for executioners and ...

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — On a hot June afternoon in 2011, 69-year-old Eunice Hopkins rolled down the windows of her silver BMW, waiting for the air conditioning to kick in before she left a ...

Hundreds of federal judges have ruled against the administration’s “mandatory detention” policy, but the Supreme Court may ...

For five and a half years, The Next to Die tracked every execution scheduled in the country, starting in 2015. This is what we learned. Although we are no longer updating these pages, you can read our ...

Reporters Without Borders Sweden honors The Marshall Project for journalism that scrutinizes the U.S. justice system and holds power accountable.

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