Austin-based journalist and Insider Prize organizer Maurice Chammah (Let the Lord Sort Them), criminologist and UT-Austin visiting scholar Reuben Jonathan Miller (Halfway Home), and Atlantic Center for Capital Representation director Mark Bookman (Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays) gather to discuss a carceral system designed for people within it to fail, primitive punitive practices, and the death penalty itself: a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that once deemed it unconstitutional; the practice’s resulting resurgence, especially in Texas; and its future.

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• Moderator: Elizabeth Bruenig, Atlantic staff writer
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Maurice Chammah, Marc Bookman, , Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration y