Culture
People are permitted to change their mind about their convictions, but they should have a good reason for the change. According to Gov. Josh Shapiro in a broadcast interview, he said he abandoned his long-held belief in capital punishment in part because his son asked a question he could not
Crime
A local lawyer, a frenemy, told me he had written a book about the death penalty, and asked if I would read it. It was anti-death penalty, a dozen essays opposing the penalty rather than a book with a singular narrative thread. I told him I would read it if
Death Penalty
Marc Bookman is a good lawyer; an acquaintance of mine. Although he is good lawyer, he’ll never pull down Big Lawyer bucks because he’s pretty much devoted himself to lost causes, those already convicted, the out-of-sight, out-of-mind people. He is the executive director of the nonprofit Atlantic Center