“In a season of American life when so many want to get big things done and few seem to get anywhere, this story of the slow slaying of the death penalty — one that flies against many of my own intuitions — serves as a vaccine against the virus of fatalism.” - Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times

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Published by Crown. Winner of the 2021 Nonfiction Book Award from the Writers’ League of Texas, and the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Columbia Journalism School