Murray Hooper just needs more time. He says this over and over again, with an urgency bordering on despair. He is six days away from execution and not ready to give up. But he doesn’t want to delude himself either…. Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Justice’
Chicago Sheriff Systematically Denies New Rights Laid Out in Criminal Justice Reform
Eddie Raymond needed to run to the store to grab some toilet paper on a January day this year. Under an Illinois law that had gone into effect at the start of the month, he was entitled to leave home… Read More ›
Oakland Cops Hope to Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns
In a series of little noted Zoom meetings this fall, the city of Oakland, California, grappled with a question whose consequences could shape the future of American policing: Should cops be able to kill people with shotgun-armed robots? The back-and-forth… Read More ›
After Clinic Arson, Abortion Rights Advocates in Wyoming Step Up Their Fight
The sun was just coming up on May 25 when Julie Burkhart’s phone rang. Burkhart had arrived in Casper, Wyoming, a day earlier to check on renovations to a new abortion clinic she was opening on East Second Street. The… Read More ›
Texas Claims It’s “Too Late” for DNA Testing That Could Get Rodney Reed Off Death Row
Suzan Hugen remembers the day she met Stacey Stites. It was late 1995, and Hugen was working at the H-E-B grocery store in Bastrop, Texas, when Stites walked in for her first day on the job as a cashier. Stites… Read More ›
Detroit Cops Want $7 Million in Covid Relief Money for Surveillance Microphones
Detroit’s city council will soon vote on whether to spend millions in federal cash meant to ease the economic pains of the coronavirus pandemic on ShotSpotter, a controversial surveillance technology critics say is invasive, discriminatory, and fundamentally broken. ShotSpotter purports… Read More ›
Explosive New Evidence Points to Richard Glossip’s Innocence. Why Is Oklahoma Still Trying to Kill Him?
Stephanie Garcia was flipping through TV channels when she saw his face. It stopped her cold. She was sitting with her husband in the living room of their ranch house on a sprawling piece of creek-side property nestled among Texas… Read More ›
The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved. Then Journalists Sued the City.
For months after her son’s killing, Laura Kealiher waited for the results of a police investigation. The case seemed an easy one: Sean Kealiher, a 23-year-old antifascist well known in Portland’s protest scene and to police, was run over by… Read More ›
In the Aftermath of a Police Killing, the Justifications Begin Immediately
On the last day of his life, Harith Augustus left the barbershop where he worked on the South Side of Chicago and set out to run some errands. It was late afternoon on July 14, 2018. Walking streets he had… Read More ›
Why Is the UAE Detaining an American Lawyer Who Worked With Jamal Khashoggi?
Since the American lawyer Asim Ghafoor was arrested in July while trying to make a connecting flight in the United Arab Emirates, his supporters in Washington, D.C., have been speculating as to exactly why. Emirati authorities detained Ghafoor on accusations… Read More ›