Montana Has an Ambitious Plan to End Dark Money in Elections
Polls suggest 74 percent of voters in the state will back a ballot initiative to counter the effects of Citizens United.
Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds
No parole if you’re still profitable.
“Devastasting”: Ripple Effects Being Felt as Alabama Halts In Vitro Fertilization
The Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are "extrauterine children" is already causing chaos for families.
The Alabama State Government’s Killing of Kenneth Smith
The State of Alabama has become the very thing it claimed to be punishing: a contract killer.
What It’s Like to Live in One of the Country’s Deadliest Prison Systems
Alabama’s prison homicide rate is among the highest in the country, leaving many changed people to die behind bars.
US Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Alabama Nitrogen Gas Execution
"The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment, and we urge Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to use her clemency power to stop the execution of Kenneth Smith…
Alabama’s Nitrogen Gas Execution Thursday Will Be Cruel and Unusual Punishment
A public-defender-turned-death penalty abolitionist and a medical doctor argue that Alabama's plan to begin executing convicts with nitrogen gas cannot be seen as anything other than a violation of the…
Behind the Curtain: Finding Counternarratives About Death Row
Ahead of the first ever experimental execution by suffocation using nitrogen gas scheduled in Alabama next week, think about the many ways the state uses its iron-fisted power to control…
UN Rights Experts Says Alabama Nitrogen Execution May Constitute Torture
"Rather than inventing new ways to implement capital punishment, we urge all states to put in place a moratorium on its use, as a step towards universal abolition," said the…
I’m a Spiritual Advisor for Condemned Men. Alabama’s Next Execution Could Kill Me, Too.
Alabama plans to execute Kenneth Smith next month by suffocating him with nitrogen. But the new method is untested—since I’m supposed to be in the room with Kenny when he…
Alabama Prosecutor Criminalizes Journalists For Publishing ‘Grand Jury Evidence’
The arrests were roundly condemned by press freedom organizations in the United States.
Mother Sues Alabama Jail After Being Forced to Give Birth Alone in a Shower
Alabama jailed Ashley Caswell on charges of endangering a fetus, then made her give birth without medical support.
Alabama’s Pure Nitrogen Execution of Kevin Smith Could Take Over 15 Minutes
After attempting to execute Smith by other means, the state of Alabama is turning to nitrogen hypoxia gas—an untested, ‘astonishingly cruel’ method.
Father’s Day on Death Row
Loving dad in the face of injustice.
‘We Missed Our Chance to Confront the Death Penalty and Regret It’: Former Alabama Governors Urge End to Capital Punishment
As Alabama introduces new death penalty legislation, former governors urge elected officials to do the morally right thing.