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In 2018, after nearly a decade’s hiatus, the state of Tennessee began executing death row inmates. Award-winning journalist Steven Hale was the leading reporter on these executions and in “Death Row Welcomes You,” Hale traces the lives of condemned prisoners and the people who come to visit them.
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Sister Helen Prejean is considered one of the nation’s foremost leaders in efforts to abolish the death penalty.In her new book, "River of Fire: My…
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Republican Governor Chris Sununu has vetoed a bill that would have abolished New Hampshire's death penalty.Sununu said Thursday while he respects…
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Organizers of an anti-death penalty coalition say they have delivered over 56,000 petition signatures to New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu,…
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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s new book, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, is inspired by her time at a law firm in Louisiana working on the…
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Attorneys for a Vermont man facing a second federal death penalty trial want an appeals court to rule on the constitutionality of the death penalty.Late…
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Connecticut's highest court has overturned the death penalty in the state, saying it's unconstitutional.Thursday's ruling means that the 11 men on the…
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America is the most punitive nation in the world, handing out historically harsh sentences that largely dispense with the concept of rehabilitation.Alan…
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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, political consultant and…
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The defense team for convicted Boston Marathon bomber DzhokharTsarnaev began a two-week campaign in court yesterday to avoid the death penalty. We have an…