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Dispatch

The Prisoners in a Cellar in the Ukrainian Village of Novyi Bykiv

A pattern of indiscriminate violence committed by Russian forces appears to have taken hold in a number of towns and villages in the Kyiv region.
Daily Comment

Trump’s Final Cruelty: Executing Prisoners

Despite losing the election, the Administration plans to put Brandon Bernard and four other federal prisoners to death.
News Desk

Witnessing a Federal Execution

William Barr has announced plans to put five federal prisoners to death. After reporting on the use of capital punishment, I wonder, What purpose do these executions fulfill?
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 24th

Comment

The Banal Horror of Arkansas’s Executions

With the state’s supply of the sedative midazolam due to expire, the proposed schedule came to resemble a lethal clearance sale.
Profiles

The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row

In Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past.
News Desk

The Defector Who Returned to Iran

Annals of Terror

The Witches of Salem

Comment

Cruel And Unusual

Books

Prison of the Mind

Letter from Libya

The Return

Books

Life Lines

Briefly Noted

The Spanish Holocaust

Briefly Noted

Lola, California

Annals of Law

The Mitigator

Page-Turner

The Exchange: Last Words

The Theatre

Telling It Like It Isn’t

The Mail

Crime and Punishment

A Reporter at Large

Trial by Fire

Letter from Andalusia

Lorca’s Bones

Can Spain finally confront its civil-war past?
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