I have broken out the "death penalty" pieces even as they highlight how the death penalty is necessarily intertwined with broader stories of incarceration. I find the last of these pieces especially stunning as it reports that Rommel Broom, who survived a botched Ohio execution attempt way back in 2009 and had a pending US Supreme Court appeal seeking to preclude a second Ohio execution effort, could not survive the new death penalty that is COVID-19. January 3, 2021 at 12:49 PM | Permalink