capital punishment Melissa Lucio Case: A Look at the Facts After Texas Grants Her a Stay of Execution Melissa Lucio was sentenced to death on charges she murdered her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, in 2007. But the execution is postponed to review new medical evidence that 5 former jurors say they wished they had seen.
Melissa Lucio After Melissa Lucio's Stay of Execution Her Case Remains ‘Far From the Finish Line' Melissa Lucio, a Texas mother of 14, has been on death row since 2008 after she was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter. Her execution was delayed just two days before she was scheduled to die to allow a lower court to review new evidence — including arguments that her confession was coerced. Molly Parmer, a criminal defense attorney who...
julius jones What Comes Next in the Case of Julius Jones, the Death Row Inmate Getting Support From Kim Kardashian After nearly two decades on death row, Julius Jones is getting closer to making his case for a commutation of his sentence. Jones maintains he is innocent of a 1999 murder and his case has gotten attention from Kim Kardashian West and other celebrities, who point to signs of racial bias and other evidence that supports his claim of innocence....
capital punishment Why Trump's Approval of Firing Squads for Executions Is ‘Largely Symbolic,' But Still Leaves ‘a Mess' for Biden In his final weeks in the White House, President Trump is rushing to approve execution methods such as firing squads and hanging for federal death-row inmates. The Marshall Project’s Keri Blakinger explains what these new rules really mean for prisoners.
