The lawyer, poet and recent MacArthur genius grant recipient talks about his initiative Freedom Reads which offer inmates access to books across the USWhen Reginald Dwayne Betts fell in love with poetry as a young man, his reading options were limited….
‘It’s part of my faith’: Death row inmate calls for pastor to lay hands on him during execution
John Henry Ramirez’s lawsuit reveals how rules around executions – from last meals to last words – are shaped by custom and sometimes spite rather than rightsJohn Henry Ramirez does not want to die alone. The Texas prisoner knows that at his execution,…