Last week, when Pope Francis made his much-discussed change to the Catechism entry on the death penalty, I happened to be reading a journalist’s memoir about Death Row. The author is an Associated Press reporter, Michael Graczyk, who retires this month aged 68, after witnessing more than 400 state executions.
This has made me think back to my time working in America in the 90s for the Times and Mail when I would regularly have to attend the executions of some of the USA’s most notorious serial killers.
