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    Rethinking the Power To Take a Life

    Apr 22, 2021 5 minutes
    C.J. CIARAMELLA

    AGRUESOME COINCIDENCE HAS made Maurice Chammah’s Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty timely. In the final months of Donald Trump’s presidency, shortly before this book was released, the Justice Department rushed through eight executions after a 17-year pause in use of the federal death penalty. The historic killing spree reignited a well-worn debate about capital punishment.

    Meanwhile, President Joe Biden campaigned on eliminating the federal death penalty. Criminal justice advocates are now urging the White House to commute the death sentences of those remaining on federal death row. And in March, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) signed legislation to end capital punishment in the state that has carried out more executions than any other in U.S. history.

    Chammah—a reporter at , a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to criminal justice coverage—arrives

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