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When a jury sentences a defendant to death, it begins a process that can take decades, cost millions of dollars, and require a small army of lawyers, many of whom end up growing close to their clients in the process of trying to keep them alive.
motherjones.com
The cruel durability of capital punishment
I went to Tennessee and found out why the last days of the death penalty may never come.
