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Dr. Martin Luther King’s Moral Opposition to the Death Penalty Equal Justice Initiative
‘This is not justice’: Justice Sonia Sotomayor offers fierce dissent in death penalty case Raul A. Reyes, NBC News
‘Expedited Spree of Executions’ Faced Little Supreme Court Scrutiny Adam Liptak, New York Times
Trump Targeted the Mentally Ill With His Lame Duck Execution Spree Austin Sarat, Slate
Biden campaigned on eliminating death penalty – we could soon see how that turns out Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle
Illinois State Lawmakers Vote To Eliminate Cash Bail Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The Appeal
Illinois Will End Cash Bail – and Limit Use of High-Tech Incarceration Isaac Scher, The Intercept
Thousands of Illinois Drivers Would Get Their Licenses Back Under a Criminal Justice Reform Bill Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica
Seven of Eight Manhattan District Attorney Candidates Support Parole and Sentencing Reform Samar Khurshid, Gotham Gazette
Man Who Sat on Death Row Is Cleared After Bite-Mark Evidence Is Doubted Jacey Fortin and Allyson Waller, New York Times
Judge approves shorter sentence for convicted murderer turned prison mentor Kelan Lyons, Connecticut Mirror
Lawmakers have another chance to address Mississippi’s prisons before it’s too late Steven Randle and J. Robertson, Jackson Clarion-Ledger
2 inmates die, many more ill in COVID-19 prison outbreak Oregon Public Broadcasting
California urged to move inmates to front of COVID-19 vaccine line Don Thompson, AP News
Denver Broncos players push governor on prison policy: “Football is temporary. Being a Black man in America is permanent.” Alexander Burness, Greeley Tribune
AM Stories
The Boogaloo Bois Prepare for Civil War Michael J. Mooney, The Atlantic
Extremists move to secret online channels to plan for Inauguration Day in DC Anna Schecter, NBC News
Armed ‘militias’ are illegal. Will authorities finally crack down if they show up at state capitals next week? Will Carless, USA Today
Feds edge closer to sedition charge in Capitol riot aftermath Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein, Politico
Felony Murder and the Storming of the Capitol Carissa Byrne Hessick, Lawfare
The DOJ’s Promised Probe Into Capitol Riot Raises Alarm About Prosecutorial Overreach Alice Speri, The Intercept
The Last Thing We Need Is Another War on Terror Spencer Ackerman, Daily Beast
The Capitol Police Had One Mission. Now the Force Is in Crisis. Shaila Dewan, Ali Watkins, and John Eligon, New York Times
Lafayette Square, Capitol rallies met starkly different policing response Rachel Chason and Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post
Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops Michael Biesecker, Jake Bleiberg, and James LaPorta, AP News
US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds Lois Beckett, The Guardian
NY attorney general sues NYPD over Floyd protest response Michael R. Sisak, AP News
They Took Umbrellas to a Black Lives Matter Protest. The DA Hit Them with Gang Charges Meg O’Connor, The Appeal
An FBI Agent Went Undercover to Study White Supremacists. Now He’s Speaking Out About Racist Police. Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones
“MLK/FBI” Forbids Us to Relax Anthony Lane, The New Yorker