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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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The latest in Death Penalty news

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Oct 14 2008, 4:19 PM ET Comment

Troy Anthony Davis will, in all likelihood, die. I don't know what to say. I'm against the death penalty on basic principle--the math says we'll eventually execute (and likely already have executed) someone whose innocent. That just seems morally repugnant to me. Moreover, I don't believe in law as a tool of vengeance. And often that's all the death penalty is--societal vengeance.


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