Brandon L. Garrett

Garrett is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice.

View through prison bars of dormitory bunks at Mississippi State Penitentiary (or Parchman Farm) seen in 1964.

The Moral Problem of Life-Without-Parole Sentences

Only about 2,800 U.S. prisoners are on death row today, and only 31 were se...

Only about 2,800 U.S. prisoners are on death row today, and only 31 were sentenced to death last year — which is remarkable. In the 1990s, death rows reached over 3,500 prisoners; several hundred were...