Recommended Reading

The New York Times has a long article on Nathaniel Woods, a 43-year-old black man who was executed on March 5, 2020 for his role in a 2004 police raid on a crack house in Birmingham, Alabama. Three police officers were killed in that raid and the man who shot them is still very much alive, albeit on Death Row, whereas Woods — who never touched a gun at the time, was put to death. The piece by Dan Barry and Abby Ellin may put you through a roller coaster of feeling that Woods was or was not wronged or that justice was or was not served. I don't even know where I come down on it.