How 2021 Changed the Death Penalty Austin Sarat, Slate
America’s death penalty divide: why capital punishment is getting better, and worse Ed Pilkington, The Guardian
“Right Too Soon” Study: One in Seven Prisoners Put to Death in US Had Legal Issues that Make Their Executions Unconstitutional Death Penalty Information Center
“Innocence Isn’t Enough”: Arizona Urges the Supreme Court to Send Barry Jones Back to Death Row Liliana Segura, The Intercept
Your DNA Test Could Send a Relative to Jail Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, New York Times Magazine
Pennsylvania has a wrongful conviction problem. Here’s how to fix it. Samantha Melamed, Philadelphia Inquirer
Make Prosecutors ‘Earn’ Immunity James M. Doyle, The Crime Report
Why Chesa Boudin’s approach to criminal justice works in the long run San Francisco Chronicle
How (Some) Prosecutors Changed the Face of Justice in 2021 Miriam Aroni Krinsky, The Crime Report
In 2021, Qualified Immunity Reform Died a Slow, Painful Death Billy Binion, Reason
After 4 Killings, ‘Officer of the Year’ Is Still on the Job Kim Barker, Steve Eder, and David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times
Five LAPD killings in nine days: teen’s death caps brutal year of police shootings Sam Levin, The Guardian
States diverge on police reforms after George Floyd killing Colleen Slevin, Washington Post
When A Prison Sentence Of 10 Years And 6 Months Turns Into Forever Jessica Schulberg, HuffPost
Great place to avoid New Jersey’s latest COVID surge? The Bergen County Jail Steve Janoski, NorthJersey.com
Ghislaine Is Guilty Abigail Weinberg, Mother Jones
Among the Conspiracists at the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Seth Stevenson, Slate