Gautam Gulati and Brendan D. Kelly On 5 October 2021, Ernest L. Johnson, a 61-year-old man, was executed in Missouri, United States. Johnson’s crime was heinous: in 1994 he killed three people in a convenience store. No words can describe the consequences of such an act: three lives lost, many more lives shattered, and psychological wounds that endure to this day. But Johnson had fetal alcohol syndrome and an…
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