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    LETTERS

    Mar 02, 2020 3 minutes

    A Matter of Life and Death

    incoln Caplan’s “This Man Should Not Be Executed” (Winter 2020) is one of the best long-form articles that I have read in many years. It’s left me stunned and heartbroken. I ardently hope that Billy Joe Wardlow’s lawyers can use this piece to save him from execution. I find myself deeply curious about what forces in prison/solitary confinement/death row have facilitated Wardlow’s maturation. How remarkable that he has matured into a kind of therapist for other inmates on death row.

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