PM Stories
The death penalty is in the death throes David Von Drehle, Washington Post
What 120 Executions Tell Us About Criminal Justice in America Tom Meagher, The Marshall Project
Did Tennessee Execute an Innocent Man? Emily Bazelon, New York Times
Alabama prepares to execute another Black man, under laws going back to slavery Liz Granderson, Los Angeles Times
Putting Smith to death puts others at risk: Stop Alabama executions during COVID-19 pandemic Stephen Cooper, Montgomery Advertiser
I’m A Public Defender. My Clients Keep Getting COVID-19 While Incarcerated. Liz Oyer, BuzzFeed News
North Carolina Claims Prisoners Who Died of COVID Didn’t Die of COVID Hannah Critchfield and Arabella Saunders, Vice News
A COVID Uprising in America’s Jails Melissa Gira Grant, New Republic
Activists say uprising at city jail facility was a protest of ‘inhumane’ conditions Rachel Rice, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
California panel calls for overhaul of sentencing laws Don Thompson, Los Angeles Times
Jason Williams has vowed never to use the habitual offender statute. What does that mean for criminal justice in New Orleans? Nicholas Chrastil, The Lens
The New Menendez Defenders Ezra Marcus, New York Times
Five Hundred Faces of Mass Incarceration (2018) Maurice Chammah, Paris Review
A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore Patricia Miller, New York Times
A Parable and Parody of Restorative Justice Judith Levine, Boston Review
Investigating Our Obsession With True Crime Podcasts NPR
AM Stories
America Saw a Historic Rise in Murders in 2020. Why? Jesse Singal, New York Magazine
“Perfect storm” drove major surge in 2020 homicides, report says Erin Donaghue, CBS News
Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2020 Anti-Defamation League
‘Its Own Domestic Army’: How the GOP Allied Itself With Militants David D. Kirkpatrick and Mike McIntire, New York Times
Seditionaries: FBI net closes on MAGA mob that stormed the Capitol Ed Pilkington, The Guardian
They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times
Feds charge over 200 in Capitol riot. We’ve learned a lot about why it happened. Pete Williams, NBC News
Will Capitol Police fully investigate its own? Chris Marquette, Roll Call
The Police Departments With The Biggest Racial Disparities In Arrests And Killings Samuel Sinyangwe, FiveThirtyEight
How the Killing of Breonna Taylor Is Reshaping Louisville Politics Jerry Iannelli, The Appeal
Chicago Police ramp up reform efforts under federal mandate, watchdog monitor Stephanie Pagones, Fox News
Maryland was first state with a law protecting police accused of misconduct. It may be the first to repeal it. Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post
Austin Leads the Way in Cutting Police Funding and Using the Money for Housing Candice Bernd, Truthout
What ‘defund the police’ really means Simon Balto, Washington Post
‘Women in Blue,’ and Redefining What It Means to Protect and Serve Pierre-Antoine Louis, New York Times