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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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Live From Death Row

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Feb 9 2010, 4:00 PM ET Comment

Terry Gross talks to David Dow, a lawyer who's spent 20 years defending death row inmates. Virtually all of these guys have committed horrendous crimes. But Dow is working in the penalty phase of the trial, and, for the most part, isn't trying to exonerate them--he's trying to keep the state from killing them. He loses a lot.



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