A friend of mine has just been made a High Court judge. Among the majestic paraphernalia that he has had to acquire—the scarlet robes, the wigs full-bottomed and otherwise, the pressed white gloves, ...

The death sentence of Julius Jones was commuted by Oklahoma’s governor ... described the shooter as a Black man who she said was wearing jeans, a white T-shirt, a black cap and a red ...

Johnson was given the death penalty after being convicted in the 1996 double murder of a young man and his cousin in Reading, Pennsylvania. Johnson was sentenced to death the following year.

To cap off its killing spree, the Trump administration had planned two more executions: ... Martin Luther King Jr. abhorred the death penalty. Executing Black men on his birthday would dishonor him.

Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of fatally shooting a Philadelphia policeman 30 years ago and was sentenced to death in 1982. ... Death penalty dropped against ex-Black Panther.

Racism taints every stage of death penalty proceedings in California, as the state Supreme Court should acknowledge. It's present in other criminal sentences as well.

WASHINGTON — Black people have been overrepresented on death rows across the United States and killers of Black people are less likely to face the death penalty than people who kill white people ...