United States 2026
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on United States in 2026
MARCH 2, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal prosecutors in Luigi Mangione case won’t appeal ruling barring death penalty
FEBRUARY 26, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantanamo. Government Still Building Case for U.S.S. Cole Trial 25 Years After Attack
FEBRUARY 17, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 84
FEBRUARY 16, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pennsylvania. An intervention by Mumia Abu Jamal from prison
The now 72-year-old former Black Panther militant has been in prison for 45 years
FEBRUARY 13, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - DPIC Report on “Women and the Death Penalty”
FEBRUARY 13, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal Judge: Government Is Not Above the Law, Nor Are Former Death-Row Inmates Beneath Its Protection
FEBRUARY 11, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Federal Judge Blocks Transfer of Former Federally Death-Sentenced Prisoners to Supermax Prison
FEBRUARY 5, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Pentagon Official Rejects Plea Deal in U.S.S. Cole Bombing Case
Guantanamo trial against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri to begin in summer
- JANUARY 30, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Luigi Mangione won’t face most serious federal charges, judge rules
JANUARY 17, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Trump’s vendetta against federal death row inmates
Sends prisoners who received commutations to “Alcatraz of the Rockies”
- JANUARY 17, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Why Is It So Hard to Set a 9/11 Trial Date?
Here’s What to Know
JANUARY 14, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - New Analysis of Racial Bias and Death Eligibility in 2025
JANUARY 10, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - California. Lush Cosmetics Launches Campaign to End Death Penalty
JANUARY 6, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - 2025 Was Not a Good Year for Clemency in Capital Cases
- JANUARY 5, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Nonunanimous death penalty verdicts upheld by Supreme Court
JANUARY 5, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Marcelle Waldon, 42, Black, sentenced to death
JANUARY 2, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Contradictions in the war on drugs
On the (drone) killings of drug couriers
JANUARY 1, 2026United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Why Is Richard Glossip Still in Jail?