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"In The Extreme: Women Serving Life Without Parole and Death Sentences in the United States"

Sending a better clemency message while shooting the messenger

Rounding up some recent reform reads

Oklahoma top court sets executions dates for seven condemned men over the next six months

"Supplementing the Pardon Power: Second Looks and Second Chances"

Two notable new Forbes pieces on the state of federal sentencing and clemency practices

Senator Cotton: "our severe federal drug sentences are ineffectual, so let's not try to reform them"

Notable accounting of a decade of decarceration via Decennial Census

"Crime, quarantine, and the U.S. coronavirus pandemic"

Split Eight Circuit panel upholds order Missouri must improve its parole process to comply with <>Miller

"'They’re Taking My Stuff!' What You Need to Know about Seizure and Forfeiture"

Making the important (but insufficient) claim that jurors should "know what the penalties for a guilty verdict will be"

Second Texas inmate gets execution stay based on religion claim SCOTUS considering in Ramirez