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 ...

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 ...

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The California State Senate will make a final decision on Senate Bill 300 in the next two weeks. Authored by Senator Dave Cortese out of San Jose, SB300 would change the circumstances under which ...

If California dumps the death penalty this November, abolitionists will probably dance in the streets. But they shouldn’t, because the state would be abandoning one terrible idea only to replace it ...

Sheldon Mattis looks over his shoulder while in court after the guilty verdict was read. Prosecutors today said two Boston men are jointly responsible for the murder of Jaivon Blake, a Dorchester teen ...

No child should be sentenced to life in prison without parole even if they commit horrendous crimes. Why? Because, as former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy once noted, “any parent knows” ...

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 ...

An average of 130 people per year — one person every three days — are sentenced to die in our state prisons for a crime they did not commit. “I wasn’t supposed to be here at all in the world today,” ...