Redemption: The Nuns Who Visit Death Row

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In Gatesville, Texas, a group of contemplative nuns visits seven women on Death Row, teaching them the rhythms of convent life: prayer, song, silence, and confession. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower, Going Clear) got rare access to watch it unfold, and the result is his new book, Redemption: Faith, Justice and Sisterhood on Death Row. He talks about persuading silent nuns to open up, and about the abuse scandal in their order’s past.Wright also found that some of the women may never have been rightly convicted. Melissa Lucio has been declared innocent by the judge who tried her, yet she remains on the row. Wright explains how this changed his view of the…