My recent cover story on death penalty abolition and life without parole has produced some interesting responses. From a letter by David Dax: I saw no reference to the crimes that had resulted in LWOP ...

In May, a federal jury sentenced the surviving Boston Marathon bomber to death. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers had acknowledged his guilt and focused on humanizing him in hopes of avoiding a death ...

Urges Lawmakers to Extend Reform Beyond Second-Degree Murder to Address First-Degree Murder Accomplices Serving LWOP on ...

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is part of a nationwide trend to challenge life without parole sentences.

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The steady rise in life without parole sentencing, or LWOP, makes so little sense. In ...

In September 2023, the ACLU, the ACLU of Colorado, The Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, the law firm Mintz Levin, and other partners filed an amicus brief with the Colorado Supreme ...

On August 3, 1995, 23-year-old Kelly Savage was making last-minute plans to leave her abusive husband, Mark Savage. A few weeks before, Kelly had contacted a battered-women’s organization for advice ...

Re: “He got life sentence as a Pierce County teen. Now he might one day be released,” (TNT, 9/7). This recent article reminded me of a letter I once read. One day last winter while working for a ...