The family of Alexander McClay Williams, a Black 16-year-old executed in 1931, has filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania and Delaware County for his death. Williams, the youngest person
The State Attorney’s Office for Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit has filed a Notice of Intent to Seek the Death Penalty against Joanne Zephir for the killing of her
The electric chair at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama. | Source: Bettmann / Getty Most of us know of the myriad of studies that show racial disparities exist
Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty All current death penalty cases in one northern California county were ordered reviewed after the revelation of a racist and antisemitic scandal that
Source: F. Carter Smith / Getty Reprieve, a non-profit organization advocating against the death penalty, shed light on a troubling aspect of the controversial form of capital punishment
