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Illustration by Vanessa Saba for The Atlantic. Sources: … What If He Actually Did It?
I argued that Jens Söring was wrongfully convicted of a double murder, and in 2019, he was released on parole after three decades in prison. Then I started having doubts about the case.
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Caroline Gutman for The Atlantic Finally, Justice
Two years ago, I wrote an Atlantic cover story about the case of C. J. Rice, a Philadelphia teenager convicted of attempted homicide. Today, he was exonerated. C. J. Rice is now a free man.
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Phil Jung The Neighbors Who Destroyed Their Lives
Murder and lies in small-town Hawaii
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P. Michael Moffa C. J. Rice’s Conviction Is Overturned
After a cover story in The Atlantic, a man convicted of a crime he insists he did not commit now has a chance to be freed from prison.
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Photo-illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Sources: … The Criminal-Justice System and the Election Are Not Going to Get Along
And they weren’t meant to.
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A man at the scene of Tyre Nichols's … Murders Are Spiking in Memphis
A grim pattern is recurring after the latest high-profile killing by police officers.
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Desiree Rios / The New York Times / … How Did It Come to This?
Memphis authorities reacted swiftly to Tyre Nichols’s killing. Now comes the hard part.
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Seth Herald / AFP / Getty Not Every Atrocity Is About White Supremacy
Why I am skeptical of the reflex to attribute violence to structural racism
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic The Police Can Be Reformed. These Two Books Lay Out How.
In the aftermath of Tyre Nichols’s killing, it’s easy to despair. But two new books show how police departments can alter their behavior.
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Seth Herald / AFP via Getty How Memphis’s Policing Strategy Went So Wrong
David A. Graham discusses what he saw and heard in the city after video footage was released of Tyre Nichols’s fatal beating by police.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic; Getty How the Supreme Court Protects Police Officers
It’s almost impossible to hold them to account.
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The Atlantic; Ismail Ferdous / Agence VU / … What Makes a Good Cop
“Police should not police themselves.”
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City of Memphis / AP Inhumanity in Memphis
The police officers who fatally beat Tyre Nichols must have known their actions were being recorded, but that hardly seemed to deter them.
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Brad Vest / The New York Times / … Memphis’s Policing Strategy Was Bound to Result in Tragedy
The officers charged in Tyre Nichols’s death were all members of the SCORPION team, which poured law-enforcement resources into the most violent parts of the city.
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California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation / Getty Alabama Makes Plans to Gas Its Prisoners
After a series of botched executions, the state is choosing a path of technical, rather than moral, innovation.
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Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty A Year of Botched Executions
Elizabeth Bruenig reflects on writing about—and witnessing—capital punishment in America.
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Mauro Pimentel / AFP / Getty Megan Thee Stallion Is the Victim, Not the Defendant
The acclaimed rapper’s sexual history is wrongly under scrutiny.
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Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times / Getty Is the War on Drugs to Blame for the Fentanyl Crisis?
Plus: Mere discovery is overrated.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Trump’s Reckoning With the Rule of Law
His company now has criminal convictions, and his effort to seek political immunity is looking shaky.
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Raleigh News & Observer / Getty; The Atlantic The Reluctant Face of True Crime
Michael Peterson refuses to watch The Staircase.
