Against the Death Penalty
The case before the U.S. Supreme Court: the constitutionality of a lethal-injection procedure. A new book from the Brookings Institution Press, Against the Death Penalty, edited by death penalty scholar John Bessler, considers Justice Stephen Breyer’s landmark dissent on the case and the history of the death penalty over time.
Interactive by JESSICA PAVONE and YOHANN PARIS | NOVEMBER 2016