Death row inmates

The Lightning Farm

by Caroline Lester,

The death penalty under Trump and the execution of Dustin Higgs

Death Sentences

Edited by Lynden Harris,

From anonymous accounts written by seven different men on death row in the United States, collected in Right Here, Right Now, edited by Lynden Harris, which will be published next…

Occupied Territory

by Rebecca Solnit,

One morning, as I walked on the quiet, mostly wooded King Mountain trail above San Francisco Bay, a dog not much smaller than I and possessed of much sharper teeth…

Life on the Line

by Calvin G. Reid,

I was chief inmate clerk at a prison housing nearly three thousand convicts, and it was part of my duty to keep an up-to-the-minute record of the inmate population. When…

Injustice Delayed

by Rebecca Solnit, on March 4, 2016

"The overall impression I came away with from the court decision was that Jarvis Jay Masters was considered a low-grade person who only deserved a low-grade trial. It’s certainly what he got."

Bird in a Cage

by Rebecca Solnit,

There are two things I think about nearly every time I row out into San Francisco Bay. One is a passage from Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain, in which he…

Fulsome Prison

by Danny Hembree,

From a letter sent in January to the Gaston Gazette, a North Carolina newspaper, by Danny Hembree, a fifty-year-old death-row inmate at Raleigh’s Central Prison. Hembree was found guilty last…

Purgatorio

Translated by Stefania Heim,

Before I leave

by Harper’s Staff,

In cold blood

by Paul Warner Powell,

Chains of being

by Timothy McVeigh,