The Longform Guide to the Death Penalty
Compiled by Elon Green.
The Texas Clemency Memos
As Texas governor and attorney general, respectively, George W. Bush and Alberto Gonzales should have given each capital case careful consideration. The evidence suggests they did not.
Alan Berlow The Atlantic Jul 2003 15min
Trial By Fire
Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted and sentenced to die for killing his two children, a crime he almost certainly did not commit.
David Grann New Yorker Sep 2009 1h5min
In the Face of Death
What it’s like to serve on a jury in a capital case.
Alex Kotlowitz New York Times Magazine Jul 2003 35min
On the Row
On an convict too young to vote but old enough to be strapped to a chair.
Tina Rosenberg Rolling Stone Oct 1995 30min
On the Death Sentence
John Paul Stevens, the former Supreme Court Justice, reviews David Garland’s Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition and explains why he did a 180 on the death penalty
John Paul Stevens New York Review of Books Dec 2010 15min
Gibbeted
On the hanging of James Murphy, murderer.
Lafcadio Hearn The Cincinnati Commercial Aug 1876 20min
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