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The long, strange ordeal of Kerry Max Cook—perhaps the most bizarre series of capital murder proceedings in Texas history—just got longer. And stranger. Cook, convicted of the 1977 rape, mutilation, and murder of Linda Jo Edwards, spent 20 years on death...

Lily Hughes of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty describes the activism that won a stay of execution for Texas death row prisoner Rodney Reed--and explains what's next in the finally win justice, in an article written for the New Abolitionist. Death...

Michael Lambrix Michael Lambrix was supposed to die on Nov. 30, 1988. He was moved to a special "Death Watch" cell near the execution chamber. He met with the warden, who explained the process. He met with the chaplain. He met with the kitchen supervisor...

Michael Berryhill chairs the journalism department at Texas Southern University. He asked Grits to publish this extended guest post by him on the Max Soffar capital murder case, which also inspired this recent Dallas Morning News editorial. Soffar is...

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