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Trump’s Killing Spree: The Inside Story of His Race to Execute Every Prisoner He Could

by Seyward Darby January 30, 2023January 30, 2023

“Before 2020, there had been three federal executions in 60 years. Then Trump put 13 people to death in six months.”

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In Her Defence

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 19, 2022December 15, 2022

“After suffering decades of abuse, Helen Naslund was sentenced for killing her husband on their Alberta farm.”

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The Safest Place

by Seyward Darby December 13, 2022December 13, 2022

“In five years Dante McFallo went from White House honoree to dying in a hail of bullets on New Year’s Day.”

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‘How Did This Man Think He Had the Right to Adopt This Baby?’

by Seyward Darby December 1, 2022December 1, 2022

“Army Rangers killed her parents. A Marine is raising her in America. But her Afghan family says she was taken under false pretenses.”

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They Were Labeled Witches. They Just Had Dementia.

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 26, 2022October 28, 2022

“In tribal communities across Namibia, older, eccentric people are often accused of witchcraft and violently attacked.”

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‘We Deserve So Much More Than Police, Prisons, and Jails’: Scalawag Takes On Emmy-Winning Television

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 15, 2022October 21, 2022

We recommend these incisive essays on Abbott Elementary, The White Lotus, and The Dropout in Scalawag’s series on pop culture and justice.

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Ghosts of Polluters Past

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 26, 2022October 19, 2022

“As new soil tests reveal the pervasiveness of lead contamination, one California barrio continues its long struggle for justice.”

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‘The City Just Lied’: Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Massacre

by Seyward Darby May 31, 2021October 19, 2022

One hundred years later, journalists look back on the massacre of “Black Wall Street.”

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‘This Is How You Get Your Power Back’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 27, 2021October 19, 2022

“Brady’s team, though, had been haunted by a serial rapist they could not identify, much less arrest. His DNA had been found in a half-dozen old cases in which evidence remained at the hospital.” The final installment in a three-part “Cold Justice” series.

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The Case That Made Texas the Death Penalty Capital

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 1, 2021October 19, 2022

“As one of the first death sentences under the new law, Jurek’s case would become a test case, playing a key role in both the nationwide rise of the death penalty and Texas’s place at the center.”

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