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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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 ...

Re: “He got life sentence as a Pierce County teen. Now he might one day be released,” (TNT, 9/7). This recent article reminded me of a letter I once read. One day last winter while working for a ...

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 ...

In 2005, when Brett Jones was convicted of murder in Mississippi, his sentence was an automatic one: life without parole. No judge or juror could advocate for him to get anything less. Mississippi, ...