Illustration by Viktor Koen
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Photo courtesy of the Ohio Attorney General’s office
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Illustration by Viktor Koen
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John Mackey with his Super Bowl and Hall of Fame rings at his Baltimore home in 2007. Photo by AP/Steve Ruark.
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Illustration by Viktor Koen
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Illustration by Gary Taxali
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Illustration by Anthony Freda
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Illustration by Viktor Koen
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Steve Stuban at home in the room where Nick’s mom, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, spends most of her time. The hearing that preceeded Nick’s suicide was “aversarial to an extreme,” Stuban says. Photo by James Kegley.
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“There is much irony,” wrote U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn, “that the core values of our system of governance, which our military men and women served to defend with their very lives, are here invoked to protect false claims of entitlement.” Illustration by Viktor Koen
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Illustration by Anthony Freda
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In North Carolina, statistics don’t just tell a story; they can let a death row inmate challenge his conviction. A 2009 state statute allows death row inmates to claim that…
May 1, 2011 8:00 AM CDT
Ken Rose: “[We could] go from being a leader in the area of racial justice to a state that wants to continue to hide from the truth.” Photo by Scott Levoyer
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Witold Walczak of the Pennsylvania ACLU with MaryJo Miller, who filed suit against the Wyoming County DA after he threatened to prosecute her daughter and two other teens. Photo by AP Photo/Matt Rourke
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