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Jessica Schulberg is a Los Angeles-based reporter covering politics and violent extremism for HuffPost. Her work has also appeared in The New Republic and The Washington Post. She holds a master's degree in international security from American University. You can contact her at jessica.schulberg@huffpost.com or follow her on Twitter @jessicaschulb.
HuffPostNevada Democrats Squander Opportunity To End Death Penalty
After a death penalty abolition bill cleared the state Assembly, Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak indicated he would not support it.
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SCOTUS Guts Protections Against Sentencing Kids To Die In Prison
The court’s conservatives said there is no need to prove a minor who commits murder is “permanently incorrigible” in order to sentence them to life in prison without parole.
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Derek Chauvin Was Convicted Of Murder. Most Cops Who Kill Go Unpunished.
Police kill around 1,000 people every year. A small fraction are arrested, and even fewer are actually convicted.
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Virginia Becomes First Southern State To Abolish The Death Penalty
Capital punishment is rooted in lynchings, and Virginia has disproportionately sentenced Black people to death.
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They Covered Trump's Executions Despite The Risk Of COVID-19. Then They Got Sick.
Reporters George Hale and Adam Pinsker together witnessed 12 federal executions over six months before falling ill with the coronavirus.
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Biden Is The First President To Openly Oppose The Death Penalty. He Can Help End It.
The president has the opportunity to prevent another federal execution spree, but the window to act may be narrow.
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The Supreme Court Was Complicit In Donald Trump’s Execution Spree
Instead of acting as a safeguard, SCOTUS rubber-stamped the administration’s killings, sidestepping issues fundamental to the legality of the death penalty.
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Delaying Vaccines For America’s Prison Population Will Make The Pandemic Worse
Politicians are ignoring recommendations from public health experts and excluding people who are incarcerated from early stages of vaccine distribution.
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Trump Administration Ends Its Execution Spree By Killing Dustin Higgs
The 48-year-old Maryland man maintained his innocence up until his death. He was the 13th and final person executed during Trump’s term.
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Trump Administration Executes Corey Johnson, Despite Evidence Of His Intellectual Disability
Johnson was killed while recovering from COVID-19, which medical experts say may have made the lethal injection execution process torturous.
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Federal Judge Halts Executions For 2 Men Recently Diagnosed With COVID-19
Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs argued that lung damage from coronavirus would make the government's lethal injection process torturous.
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Despite Chaos And Calls To Resign, Trump Set To Oversee 3 Executions
After an unprecedented execution spree, the administration hopes to end the lives of three people this week — including two recovering from COVID-19.
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2 Men On Death Row Say Having COVID-19 Will Increase Their Suffering During Execution
Lethal injection can induce a terrifying sensation of drowning that some experts say may be heightened in COVID-19 patients.
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Federal Execution Team Members Are Getting COVID. Secrecy Has Thwarted Contact Tracing.
Out of 9 Bureau of Prisons staffers who got sick after working an execution, the agency only conducted contact tracing for one, citing “confidentiality” reasons.
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People Are Not Paying Attention To The Trump Administration’s Execution Spree
The government has executed 10 people in the past five months, but only 13% of registered voters say they’ve heard a lot about it, a HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.
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The Last Man Scheduled To Be Executed By Trump Admin Tests Positive For COVID-19
Since resuming federal executions, COVID-19 cases have exploded in the prison where federal death row is located.
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Trump Administration Executes Brandon Bernard After Jurors Plead For His Life
Bernard was an accomplice to a crime at age 18. He is the ninth person to be executed as part of the Trump administration's end-of-office killing spree.
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This Is How Trump’s Executions Are Spreading The Coronavirus
The government admitted in a buried footnote of a court filing that "some" key staffers contracted COVID-19 after the last execution.
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Brandon Bernard Is Scheduled To Be Executed. 5 Jurors Who Sentenced Him Don't Think He Should Die.
Bernard, sentenced to death for acting as an accomplice to a crime when he was 18, is scheduled to be killed weeks before President Trump leaves office.
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Police Unions Spent Millions To Beat Back Reform In Los Angeles. They Lost Big Time.
Grassroots organizing by groups like Black Lives Matter delivered criminal justice reform victories in America’s most populous county.