Herzog’s film, which debuts today, opens at a time when debate over capital punishment has taken on renewed urgency.
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Texas death row prisoner Larry Swearingen has faced execution three times for a crime medical experts say he could not possibly have committed.
Liliana Segura on the death penalty in Texas, John Nichols on ranked-choice voting in Oakland and Carmina Ocampo on access to public universities for undocumented immigrants in California
Would Illinois rather keep an innocent man behind bars than admit a mistake?
Beyond the sensationalism and the sound bites, the Duke rape case reveals the perils of unchecked prosecutorial power.


