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‘The moment of truth’: The Electoral College prepares to hand Trump the loss he refuses to accept
WASHINGTON — After all the failed lawsuits, the recounts, the falsehoods and conspiracy theories, President Donald Trump will finally meet his electoral fate Monday. Across all statehouses amid a global pandemic, 538 electors are set to convene to cast their votes for either President-elect Joe Biden or Trump, reflecting the popular votes in their states. Although protests are likely at some…
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Despite national outcry and plead to Donald Trump | Brandon Bernard dies by lethal injection | Trump ordered to be Rushed
Brandon Bernard was executed by lethal injection Thursday at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, despite a flurry of last-minute appeals by his lawyers. He was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. Bernard, 40, was convicted in 2000 of two counts of murder and other offenses for his role in the 1999 kidnapping, robbery and murder of a…
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Death Row Inmate Brandon Bernard Set For Execution Despite Jurors Demanding His Life Be Spared | Trump administration ignore pleas
Brandon Bernard’s execution on Dec. 10 will go on a scheduled even though five jurors who argued for his conviction have changed their minds. Brandon Bernard, 40, is expected to die by lethal injection on Thursday, December 10, 2020 but his lawyers are using every resource they have to work against the clock to gain clemency,…
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Superpredator: The Media Myth That Demonized a Generation of Black Youth
Twenty-five years ago, the media invented a phrase: “superpredator.” The time for reckoning is overdue. The Marshall Project is a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up to receive our newsletters, including The System, our new email series on how the criminal justice system really works. The epithet is a quarter-century old,…
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California’s prisoner unemployment fraud now estimated at $400 million, officials say
The new total is nearly three times the $140 million in claim payments estimated last week by a group of nine California district attorneys and a federal prosecutor. SACRAMENTO — State investigators have so far identified $400 million paid on some 21,000 unemployment benefit claims improperly filed in the names of California prison inmates, officials…
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Covid-19 closed schools, Black, Hispanic and Families of limited means took biggest hit in Math, and Reading. Was that planned?
An analysis of 4.4 million student test scores showed most children fell short in math — and the most vulnerable students likely fell further behind. When the Covid-19 pandemic forced the closure of most U.S. schools in the spring, students were thrown into new and unfamiliar ways of learning. Special education students and children learning…
