When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he

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Forty years and 1,400 executions after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty constitutional, eminent political scientist Frank Baumgartner and a team o