by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 8, 2021 | News
Misconduct by police and prosecutors has created an “innocence epidemic” on death row, according to a report published by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) in mid-February. Since 1993, DPIC has tracked the cases of individuals who were sentenced to death but...
by Michael Chancellor | Feb 24, 2021 | Opinion
The golf course behind my house was empty last week. It must have been the six inches of snow, howling wind, frozen pond and power outages that kept them home. As I looked to our bird feeder, I followed the trail of tiny scratches on top of the snow. The birds were...
by Jim Hopkins | Feb 15, 2021 | Opinion
Some white Christians speak a great deal about accountability, but then apply it very selectively. The response, or lack thereof, to the charges by the United States House of Representatives of “incitement of insurrection” against former President Trump on the part of...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Feb 3, 2021 | News
U.S. prisons and jails saw a significant decline in the inmate population during 2020, according to a Vera Institute of Justice report published on January 25. There were 2,115,000 incarcerated people in 2019 – 1,435,500 in U.S. prisons and 758,419 in U.S. jails....
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 21, 2021 | News
The Trump administration made headlines recently for reaching a grim milestone: Enacting more federal executions than all 50 U.S. states combined for the first time in U.S. history. Trump’s summer reversal of a 17-year hiatus on federal executions and his decision to...
