America’s Death Penalty Crisis + Abdul El-Sayed on Healing Politics

Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon

May 21, 202657:55Arts

This week on Writer’s Voice: Elizabeth Vartkessian discusses The Undeserving and the human realities behind America’s death penalty system. Plus an excerpt from my 2020 interview with Abdul El-Sayed on “the epidemic of i...

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