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The Condemned

This week, The Intercept published The Condemned, a three-year investigation that includes a dataset tallying 7,335 individual death sentences and their outcomes. Accompanying the data are stories that illustrate different aspects of this failed system: the racism that underpins it, the prosecutors who wield great power to kill, and the unlikely coalitions that have formed to fight for abolition.

After years of writing about individual death penalty cases, we wanted to find a way to measure not only who has been executed and who is condemned, but how many people had been removed from death row — a sizable but largely invisible population that exposes the myriad ways in which capital punishment is a failed policy and perversion of justice. As the Trump administration prepares to carry out the first federal executions in 16 years, The Condemned is a damning portrait of a “cruel and unusual” system that is carried out in our names.

Liliana Segura
Senior Reporter

Jordan Smith
Senior Reporter

A Push to Repeal the Death Penalty Gains Ground Across the Western United States
Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith

Abolition of the death penalty has increasingly become a bipartisan issue, with fiscal conservatives joining reformers focused on wrongful convictions.

By Any Measure, Capital Punishment Is a Failed Policy
Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith

Most people who have been sentenced to death in the U.S. are no longer on death row, and they haven’t been executed. Where did they go?

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The Supreme Court Case That Made Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Possible — and Doomed Kamala Harris
Jon Schwarz

Hint: It's not Citizens United.

Filmmakers Sue to Shield U.S. Visitors From Social Media Vetting
Cora Currier, Ryan Devereaux

The lawsuit challenges U.S. visa registration policies requiring applicants to disclose any social media handle they’ve used over the past five years on 20 platforms.

Black Teenager Damain Martin Begged Police for Help as He Drowned. His Death Was Ruled an Accident.
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Jess Swanson

Sixteen-year-old Damain Martin drowned in a canal near Sunrise, Florida, while running from police. A new investigation suggests he may have been tased.

Donald Trump Keeps Navy SEALs Above the Law
Matthew Cole

Trump’s intervention in Eddie Gallagher’s case interrupted a rare moment when a SEAL’s peers wanted to mete out discipline for dishonorable acts.

Nobel Winner Peter Handke Compared My Questions About Genocide in Bosnia to a “Calligraphy of Shit”
Peter Maass

At a press conference, Handke refused to answer my questions about the Bosnian genocide, saying they were “empty” and “ignorant.”

House Democrats Poised to Rubber-Stamp the “Achilles’ Heel of Dodd-Frank”
Rebecca Burns

Reauthorizing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as is would preserve loopholes while leaving the agency under-resourced and vulnerable to lawsuits.

Seventeen Years After His Arrest, Alleged USS Cole Plotter Is Still Fighting to See Records of His CIA Torture
Alex Emmons

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s lawyers say that details of his torture are essential to defending him against death penalty charges.

New Legislation Aims to End the “School to Confinement Pathway”
Alice Speri

Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s Ending PUSHOUT Act would create incentives to end school discipline policies that disproportionately punish girls of color.

George Bush, Barack Obama, and the CIA Torture Cover-Up
Intercepted

Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture, on how John Brennan’s CIA spied on them and accessed their classified computers.

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Nixon, Clinton, and What the Right Gets Wrong About Impeachment
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Mehdi Hasan talks to Princeton University history professor Kevin Kruse about the lessons from previous impeachments to apply to the current one.

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