The Supreme Court Won’t Hear the Case of an Inmate Sentenced to Death by Racist Juror
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Keith Tharpe, a black Georgia death row inmate, was sentenced to death in 1991 for the kidnapping and murder of his estranged wife’s sister-in-law Jaqueline Freeman. At trial, Barney Gattie, a white juror, sentenced Tharpe to death in part because he…
Harris County’s New Progressive Judges Are Upending the Bail System
tzahiv/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In November, Democrats swept Harris County, Texas, courtrooms, replacing every Republican judge to occupy each of the 59 seats on the ballot. Many of those candidates, including the 19 black women who campaigned together, ran on reform-minded platforms focused on upending the county’s bail system.…
Police Are Increasingly Taking Advantage of Home DNA Tests. There Aren’t Any Regulations to Stop It.
A criminalist prepares DNA samples for analysis in a crime lab.Matt York/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. CeCe Moore knew that she could find serial killers. But she wasn’t sure that she should. By the time authorities in Sacramento, California, announced an arrest in the Golden State Killer case in…
The Absurd Case of an Alabama Man Who Thinks He Has the Right to Be a Father
People supporting and opposing abortion demonstrate outside of the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville, Ala., Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, during a “40 Days of Life Prayer Vigil.” Sarah Cole/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In August 2017, I visited the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and…
The Private Prison Industry Just Suffered A Major Blow. And It Could Just Be the Beginning.
A protester inside a Chase bank in December 2019.SOPA Images/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last month, on Valentine’s Day, dozens of protesters gathered outside the Upper East Side apartment of Jamie Dimon with a mariachi band and signs urging the JP Morgan Chase CEO to “break up with” private…
California Won’t Charge Officers in the Stephon Clark Case—But the Feds Might
Selena Manni, fiancée of Stephon Clark, wipes tears as she reacts to the decision by District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert to not press charges on Saturday.Renee C. Byer/Sacramento Bee/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, March 5, 2019, 5:09 pm ET: Hours after Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced his office…