Weeks before calling to abolish capital punishment in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine commuted the man’s death sentence to life in ...

Hosted by Lawrence Bartley, publisher of “The Marshall Project Inside,” and co-creator/director Donald Washington Jr., ...

Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...

First came the fines: Last year, the Trump administration began aggressively fining immigrants who allegedly stayed in the ...

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What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Host Maurice Chammah takes you behind the scenes as a death penalty defense team races to try to stop an execution 30 years ...

A Marshall Project journalist gets rare access to defense attorneys who only have 12 weeks to stop the execution of David ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. On Oct. 29, 1984, a ...

We visit death row, where David Wood tries to clear his name. But not before a victim of his crimes has her say.

In the final weeks before the execution date, the defense team has to decide just how far it’s willing to push to save David ...