In a month that has seen the exoneration of both the world's and our nation's longest-serving death row inmates, it is worth asking: where the hell does all the support for the death penalty come from? The answer may not surprise you.

After 48 years on Japan's death row, Iwao Hakamada has been freed. A court "concluded investigators had likely fabricated evidence" in his trial. This month, both America's and the world's longest-serving death row inmates have been exonerated.

Louisiana prisoner Glenn Ford has been exonerated and released after 30 years on death row, a fact that should make our entire nation queasy.

Angela Corey is the state attorney in Florida's fourth district. You may know her for her failure to convict George Zimmerman, and her failure to convict Michael Dunn of first degree murder. She is, however, excellent at sending black people to death row.

Texas death row inmate Ray Jasper is scheduled to be put to death on March 19. He has written us a letter that, he acknowledges, "could be my final statement on earth." It is well worth your time.

In 2004, the state of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham for the crime of setting fire to his own house, killing his three children. Today, evidence is stronger than ever that his conviction was a miscarriage of justice.

Even though the he said he didn't want to do it, a judge in Seminole County, Florida, was forced to return a Glock pistol and a rifle to a blind man who won immunity for killing another man under the state's "stand your ground" law.

A home care nurse administrator who was known as "Juror No. 4" in the Florida murder trial of Michael Dunn—the white man not convicted last week of murdering Jordan Davis over the black teen's "loud music"—says she, and most of her peers, wanted to convict Dunn of the killing.

The former executive director of Project Veritas, conservative ratfucker extraordinaire James O'Keefe's investigative outfit, is suing O'Keefe and the company for "wrongful termination," alleging breach of contract and defamation. Hopefully, there's a highly doctored video involved somehow.

For reasons unfathomable to mortal man, the United States is unable to secure a supply of drugs to use to lethally inject into its own citizens. Therefore, one of our states may now bring back the electric chair as a mandatory punishment. The year is 2014.

Last year, at least 87 Americans locked in prison were exonerated. That's the highest annual figure in the past 25 years. We seem to have a problem.

George Zimmerman hasn't had anything to shoot in a while, so he's still playing with this debt-paying arts-and-crafts thing where he trolls everyone with infantile comments on American justice, oh and also, stencils.

When the statute of limitations for sexual abuse came up before one California woman could work up the courage to report her abuser, she took the matter into her own hands. A California woman identifying herself as Jamie, claiming that a teacher had molested her, said she recently found the teacher's phone number and confronted her. Jamie taped the whole conversation.

Cops say that two Ohio men who called 911 to report being robbed (by a group of teenagers, as they all practiced medieval sword fighting in a Taco Bell parking lot) forgot to mention that they were actually selling the teenagers weed at the time.

If you like the homicide cop reality show The First 48, you'll love this wholesale indictment of the police work it depicts. "In Miami...at least 15 men have walked free of murder charges spawned under the program's glare."

Daniel Villegas was 16 years old when he confessed to the 1993 drive-by shooting murders of two teens in El Paso. In 1995, he was sentenced to life in prison. Now, he's about to go free.

Last month (as we did last year), we sent letters to all of the U.S. death row inmates who have execution dates in the upcoming year. Today, we have our first reply: Ray Jasper, who is scheduled to be put to death in Texas in March.

Prosecutors have downgraded the charges against the bikers involved in the Range Rover assault caught on camera in September, in part because the victim is healing well.

New Mexico's Supreme Court unanimously declared it unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to gay or lesbian couples Thursday afternoon, making the state No. 17 in the union (plus the District of Columbia) to legalize gay unions.