Sentenced to Life for an Accident Miles Away
Across the U.S., felony-murder laws hold people responsible for killings they didn’t commit, putting thousands of Americans—disproportionately young and Black—in prison. Sarah Stillman looks at the case of Sadik Baxter.
"It's truly one of the cruellest ideas in the American legal system, and most people don't even know it exists." — Ian Marcus, who lost his father in the crash