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...hadn’t even heard of Sutzkever, a famous Yiddish poet, until I had shopped a Jewish Studies class, and it was my Google Reader that led me to Auchincloss, a lawyer and social observer. As a government concentrator at Harvard, I was never exposed to these cultural contributors. As I read about these men, a part of me regretted my failure to recognize their accomplishments while they lived, and a part of me admired and, at the same time, felt sorry for the obituary writer who had to select the most important and interesting moments of each person?...
Some two-thirds of Americans support the death penalty, but few are forced to confront it on a daily basis. As an appellate lawyer in Texas - which leads the U.S. in executions - David Dow has represented more than 100 death-row inmates over the past two decades. In The Autobiography of an Execution, he recounts what it's like to do the job and then come home to his family and his dog. He talked to TIME about why he keeps doing the work, the problem with juries and what it's like to look murderers...
...used to support the death penalty. [But] once I started doing the work, I became aware of the inequalities. I tell people that if you're going to commit murder, you want to be white, and you want to be wealthy - so that you can hire a first-class lawyer - and you want to kill a black person. And if [you are], the odds of your being sentenced to death are basically zero. It's one thing to say that rich people should be able to drive Ferraris and poor people should have to take the bus. It's very...
...pretty critical of some death-penalty lawyers. Why? The cases that I write about are cases that I was handling five years ago, which means that the trials were 15 years ago. And 15 years ago, the quality of trial lawyers in Texas, and really all over the so-called death-penalty belt - the Southeast of the U.S. - was typically abysmal. Over the past five years, the quality of trial lawyering has gotten vastly better. There are still a handful of bad lawyers. [But] today the problem is that there aren't any resources. You can have the world...
...invasion and occupation of Iraq. But on her way to Berlin last month, she says the government went one step further. Poitras arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to discover that she'd been put on a no-fly list. Shocked and bewildered, she called her lawyer who "woke up a few people in Washington" and eventually she was allowed to board the plane...