‘It speaks very poorly of us as a society’: Lawrence Wright on his book on death row and redemption

The Pulitzer prize-winning writer’s new book looks at the women on death row in Texas and the nuns who have been trying to help them It is “stunning”, the Pulitzer-winning reporter Lawrence Wright said, that Redemption, his new book about women on death row in Texas and the nuns who minister to them, turns out to be published at a time of intense focus on capital punishment.

Two cases dominate headlines: the Trump administration’s abandoned plan to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, who…