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Mikal Mahdi’s life was marked by abuse. Today, as he awaits execution, the courts have the responsibility to acknowledge the systemic failures that shaped his path.

New litigation centered on increasing access to substance-use disorder treatment in jails and prisons is helping to reduce mortality rates among incarcerated individuals.

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can combat President-elect Trump’s plans to greatly expand the death penalty and execute every person on the federal row.

U.N. experts say the method is likely to constitute torture, violating international human rights treaties ratified by the U.S.

The executions of 24 people last year illustrated the full range of systemic flaws in our system of capital punishment.

Her actions remind us that compassionate mercy and restorative justice are not in conflict with public safety.

The problems with the death penalty are so deep they cannot be fixed. With every execution we carry out, we violate our Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.