‘Chased down’ and killed: Trial over Arbery’s death reveals ‘painful’ similarity to case that launched BLM N’dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today
“Blackness Itself Is the Crime”: Bishop William Barber on Racism in the Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial Democracy Now!
Prosecution says Kyle Rittenhouse provoked fatal shootings, while defense says he feared for his life Eric Levenson, Brad Parks, and Carma Hassan, CNN
Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate is up to a jury tasked with deciding if he acted in self-defense Mark Guarino and Mark Berman, Washington Post
“They Would Have Killed Him” Aymann Ismail, Slate
‘Ghost Guns’: Firearm Kits Bought Online Fuel Epidemic of Violence Glenn Thrush, New York Times
On the Front Lines Giffords Law Center
There’s No Second Amendment on the South Side of Chicago Sharone Mitchell Jr., The Nation
The Supreme Court’s Latest Gun Case Made a Mockery of Originalism Saul Cornell, Slate
Conservative Justices Suddenly Discover Limits to Religious Liberty Adam Serwer, The Atlantic
The Supreme Court’s Growing Hostility to Arguments of Death Row Inmates Adam Liptak, New York Times
Will Oklahoma’s Governor Stop the Execution of a Man Many Think May Be Innocent? Scott Shackford, Reason
King of Death Row Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia DA says prosecutors hid evidence for years in a 2003 murder case Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer
Workers at federal prisons are committing some of the crimes Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, AP News
The Bureau of Prisons Is Doing the Crime: Report Matt Stieb, New York Magazine
Again facing prison crisis, Florida remains ‘white whale’ for criminal justice reformers Grace Toohey, Orlando Sentinel
The ‘Hard Tradeoffs’ of Shrinking America’s Prisons Eva Herscowitz, The Crime Report
No bars, no chains, no locks: How Finland is reimagining incarceration Natalie Moore, WBEZ
There Is No One Answer to Over-Policing and Mass Incarceration – There Are Many Alia Nahra and Hernandez D. Stroud, Brennan Center for Justice
How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker
Father and Son Help Crack Unsolved 1969 Bank Robbery Eduardo Medina, New York Times
The most dangerous woman in San Francisco Katie Dowd, SFGate
Reno’s Weird Whip Problem Eve Peyser, New York Magazine
Copaganda Mark Anthony Neal, Inquest