The Execution That Will Make History: After Three Decades on Death Row, Tennessee Prepares to Execute Its First Woman in Two Centuries

the first woman executed in Tennessee in nearly two hundred years, a grim legacy that has reignited a fierce, polarized debate over justice, the fallibility of youth, and the absolute finality of the state’s most severe punishment.

Some criminal cases are destined to dissolve into the hazy background of historical footnotes, but others possess a gravitational continue reading …