By Workers World Houston bureau To understand the systemic cruelty and deep inequalities that persist in the criminal injustice system…
Finally. The U.S. Supreme Court announced the petition of death row prisoner Rodney Reed would be heard, regarding the constitutionality…
By the Underground Poet for Mumia’s 68th birthday Today we sang the National Anthem To celebrate the opening of baseball…
April 25 - Melissa Lucio was granted a stay of her April 27 execution by the Texas Court of Criminal…
Houston Melissa Lucio, the first woman of Mexican descent on Texas’ death row, has lived in relative anonymity since being…
Houston — On any day of the week, prisons are hell. Texas prisons are no exception. And for prisoners on…
Rodney Reed’s birthday was Dec. 22. This was the 24th birthday and holiday season he has spent away from his…
The new year began with Oklahoma legally lynching a severely mentally ill African American named Donald Grant. Killing someone with…
“Rodney [Reed] had a Jim Crow trial in a kangaroo court. There’s not a system of justice. This was a…
President Biden is under intense pressure from activists around the country to abolish the federal death penalty after a state-sanctioned…