
TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2023
The World Next Week
The Power of Forgiveness and Everything
The US capital punishment system, like many other parts of its society get held up as distinctly different from other advanced democracies. A major theme that runs through the book is that the rest of the world is just stunned that the US would even consider executing someone for a crime committed as a 15 year old child. The Supreme Court decision that declared that the death penalty for crimes committed by people as minors violated the Eighth Amendment did end up citing its footnotes.
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