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Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty in the case of Payton Gendron, the white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022. The decision marks the first time federal attorneys have sought the death penalty during Joe Biden’s presidency. In a notice filed Friday, Jan. …

Tariq MaQbool is an incarcerated writer serving two consecutive life sentences at the New Jersey State Prison. He is a member of the mentorship program Empowerment Avenue, which pairs writers with editors in the outside world to hone their craft and pitch stories to the media. Their mission is to …

Voters in Louisiana elected a new governor last week. For 56 of the state’s residents, the stakes of that contest were especially high: The elevation of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a rabid defender of the death penalty, dramatically increases the odds they will soon be executed. Earlier this year, …

Robert G. Bowers, who wasfound guilty on 63 charges, including the murder of 11 people, connected to the2018 mass shootingat Pittsburgh’sTree of Life Synagogue, was sentenced to death Wednesday. Earlier this month, Bowers was deemed eligible for the death penalty prior to the sentencing phase of his trial. After two …

The podcast setup at first appears familiar: a pair of white dudes, mic’d up at a table, wrestling out loud with big ideas. But the conversation between the two men veers, without guardrails, into a dystopian vision of a Christian nationalist America, in which the laws of the Old Testament …

The Idaho state legislature banned execution by firing squad in 2009. The nation has changed quite a bit in the past 15 years, though, and the state’s Republicans are now poised to bring back the practice. The state’s Republican-controlled Senate on Monday passed a bill that would allow people on …

Members of the South Carolina State House are considering a bill that would make a woman who has an abortion in the state eligible for the death penalty. The “South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023” would amend the state’s code of laws, redefining “person” to include a fertilized …

“What do you think of firing squads?” That’s the question Donald Trump repeatedly asked some close associates in the run-up to the 2024 presidential campaign, three people familiar with the situation tell Rolling Stone. It’s not an idle inquiry: The former president, if re-elected, is still committed to expanding the …

The 2024 Republican primary for president is going to brutal. The current frontrunner, Donald Trump, has a penchant for executing people and, as Rolling Stone reported on Tuesday, is pushing to bring back firing squads and publicly broadcast executions. The only candidate who currently seems to have a reasonable chance …

I n the final moments of Brandon Bernard’s life, before he was executed by lethal injection at a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Dec. 10, 2020, President Donald Trump picked up the phone to entertain a final plea for mercy on Bernard’s behalf. The call was not with …