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In brief: August 2017

In Texas, TaiChin Preyor was executed late last month, after his appeal was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court. Preyor, who was convicted of the

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Voices: Matt Ruskin

“To spend 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, and emerge with his humanity and dignity intact … to spend 20 years, day in and day out, fighting for his freedom, it was just so extraordinary. It was totally compelling.”

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In brief: August 2023

In Alabama last week, where corrections officials botched three executions in a row last year because of the execution team’s inability to insert IV lines

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Aba Gayle

Aba Gayle, who became a passionate opponent of the death penalty after her 19-year-old daughter, Catherine Blount, was murdered, died in Silverton, Oregon, in late

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