Lauren Gill
writing about criminal justice and voting rights @boltsmag. [email protected]. DM for Signal
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1 month ago |
azmirror.com | Pascal Sabino |Lauren Gill
In the nearly three decades Barry Jones spent on Arizona’s death row, he often contemplated how he would die. A series of failed appeals to prove his innocence had culminated with the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting his most promising bid for freedom in May 2022.
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1 month ago |
boltsmag.org | Michael Barajas |Lauren Gill |Pascal Sabino
In the nearly three decades Barry Jones spent on Arizona’s death row, he often contemplated how he would die. A series of failed appeals to prove his innocence had culminated with the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting his most promising bid for freedom in May 2022.
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2 months ago |
boltsmag.org | Michael Barajas |Lauren Gill
After two Connecticut businesses were found to have played a large role in U.S. executions in the past five years, lawmakers are proposing a bill that would make it illegal for state companies to participate in the death penalty. Sponsors of the bill, the first of its kind in the country, hope to inspire other states to enact similar legislation to cut off the supply of drugs and devices used to carry out death sentences. “Our goal is not even just to have the immediate impact,” state Rep.
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2 months ago |
boltsmag.org | Daniel Nichanian |Lauren Gill
In 1999, Dawn Jackson took a plea deal and was sentenced to 30 years in a New Jersey prison for killing her step-grandfather, Robert McBride. As told in the New York Times Metro section that summer, Jackson, then 27, stabbed him in the chest and stole money to buy cocaine. But over the next 25 years, Jackson told her side of the story, which was not as clear-cut as it once had seemed.
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Oct 8, 2024 |
theintercept.com | Lauren Gill
Alan Miller had spent the six months leading up to his execution confined to his cell. Though Miller was never given an explanation for the heightened captivity, which had over the past few years become routine for people facing execution in Alabama, he used the time to conduct his own research on the state’s plan to kill him with nitrogen gas.
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