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Chammah, staff writer for The Marshall Project, uses Texas (which led the nation in the number of executions in the last decades of the 20th century) as the focus of his history of the death penalty in the United States. He weaves personal stories in with deft legal and political analysis of criminal trials and state court and Supreme Court rulings. In addition to riveting profiles of death-row inmates, the book focuses on the lives of l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More