Three Men Are Found Guilty of Hate Crimes in Arbery Killing Tariro Mzezewa, Audra D. S. Burch, and Richard Fausset, New York Times
Ahmaud Arbery’s killers found guilty of federal hate crimes, may face additional life sentence N’dea Yancey-Bragg and Raisa Habersham, USA Today
“He will now begin to rest in power”: parents of Ahmaud Arbery celebrate verdict in hate crimes case Benjamin Payne, GPB
Now We Know Their Names Clint Smith, The Atlantic
Standing Your Ground While Black Brittney Cooper, New York Magazine
“Stand your ground” laws linked to jump in US firearm homicides Shawna Chen, Axios
Homicide Is Pandemic’s Biggest Killer of Young Black Men Justin Fox, Bloomberg
Too many lockdowns to count: Gun violence has touched everything at one Philly school Kristen A. Graham, Philadelphia Inquirer
Two Crucial Wins for the Gun Safety Movement Bloomberg
How Sandy Hook Families Took on a Gun Manufacturer – and Won Mary Harris, Slate
How They Did It: Sandy Hook Families Gain Long-Awaited Legal Wins Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times
Gun rights groups’ wave of lawsuits could change America’s relationship with firearms Kevin McCoy, USA Today
New York crime: Will more police flatten a wave of gun violence? Nada Tawfik, BBC News
SF’s Public Safety Needs Threaten Return to Criminalize and Incarceration Mentality, Charges ACLU Srimathi Kannan, Davis Vanguard
Prosecutors seek to try teen as an adult in brutal arson-murder after Gascón lifts his ban James Queally, Los Angeles Times
No Compassion Matthew Ahn, Inquest
Does a Fair Way to Decide Who Gets the Death Penalty Actually Exist? Michael Meltsner and Daniel S. Medwed, Slate
How a Death-Row Inmate’s Embrace of Conservatism Led to His Release Katherine Dykstra, New York Times
Captive No More: One SC man’s journey to freedom after years in modern-day slavery Jennifer Berry Haes, Charleston Post and Courier