The Angolite, an award-win­ning mag­a­zine pro­duced by the inmates at Angola Prison in Louisiana, recent­ly pub­lished an exten­sive review of the devel­op­ments in the death penal­ty in 2008. The arti­cle by Lane Nelson addressed nation­wide trends, Supreme Court deci­sions, the issues of cost, the risks of exe­cut­ing inno­cent peo­ple, and the prob­lem of inad­e­quate rep­re­sen­ta­tion. The arti­cle con­clud­ed, “[N]ational debates, leg­isla­tive stud­ies, court rul­ings and blue-rib­bon com­mis­sion rec­om­men­da­tions in 2008 clar­i­fied even more rea­sons why cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment is an unworkable system.” 

(L. Nelson, ​“Death Watch: Year in Review,” The Angolite, January/​February 2009). See Articles. The Angolite was recent­ly rec­og­nized for its jour­nal­is­tic excel­lence with an award through DPIC’s Thurgood Marshall Journalism Awards. A dig­i­tal sin­gle-lens-reflex cam­era was giv­en to the mag­a­zine for future use.

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