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Letter From Death Row

In this November 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Author Keith LaMar's execution date was moved to 2027 after 30 years on Death Row in Ohio, awaiting the death penalty.
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A Death Row Reprieve: One man's bittersweet reflection

by Keith LaMar November 16, 2023November 15, 2023

After 30 years awaiting the death penalty on Ohio's Death Row, Keith LaMar's scheduled 2023 execution date was moved to 2027. 'Here I was, again, being reminded that my days on this earth are numbered, and the only thing I could feel was gratitude.'

Death penalty opponents gather on the steps of the State Capitol in Atlanta, Ga., Monday, March 2, 2015 to protest the death penalty and the planned execution of Kelly Gissendaner. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ben Gray)
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On the execution of my friend, Kelly Gissendaner

by Carla J. Simmons August 31, 2023August 30, 2023
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In paintings: Life, Death, Carcerality, and the Pursuit of Abolition

by Obie Weathers August 29, 2023August 29, 2023
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Despair, Hope, Emancipation: A Story from Parchman State Penitentiary

by A Mississippi Collective August 29, 2023August 29, 2023
Alim Braxton and Sabur Tyler have served a combined 53 years on Death Row. Six years ago, they found a profound friendship with each other—one that provides hope, solace, purpose, and companionship amidst the unique injustices they each face.
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To dream, or not to dream: Friendship, innocence, and redemption on Death Row

by Alim Braxton and Sabur Tyler August 28, 2023August 29, 2023
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'A modernized, streamlined incarceration experience.' New prison technology surveils life on both sides of the wall.

by Lyle C. May September 29, 2022December 4, 2023
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Qualified Immunity: How 'ordinary police work' tramples civil rights

by Lyle C. May June 23, 2021October 18, 2021
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North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?

by Lyle C. May October 26, 2020
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Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 21, 2020November 21, 2023
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Free the press in prisons, too

by Lyle C. May June 15, 2020September 16, 2020
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Abolishing parole led to COVID-19 'tinderbox' in NC prisons

by Lyle C. May May 18, 2020October 1, 2020
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Prison officials cut off higher education for people on North Carolina's Death Row

by Lyle C. May October 28, 2019November 13, 2023
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Life without parole is 'silent execution'

by Lyle C. May December 31, 2018November 12, 2020
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Like father, like son: The intergenerational trauma of incarceration

by Leroy E. Mann January 16, 2018November 13, 2023
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Beyond the wall

by Lyle C. May July 3, 2017October 1, 2020
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A letter to President-Elect Trump

by Leroy E. Mann January 17, 2017October 1, 2020
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Why we must educate our prisoners

by Lyle C. May November 29, 2016November 13, 2023
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Two days before a scheduled execution

by Leroy E. Mann and Iris Gottlieb October 19, 2016June 23, 2021

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