Scott Turow on the Death Penalty

By Paul Kedrosky · Friday, December 29, 2006 ·

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I found myself watching video tonight after Saddam Hussein's execution. It wasn't, however, the inevitable snuff stuff that will almost certainly find its way online. Instead it was Scott Turow talking in visceral, ruminative, and convincing fashion (here in San Diego three years ago) about his own path to changing his mind and becoming a death penalty critic: