The Alabama Murders

<p>Florence, Alabama. 1988. A preacher has an affair. A woman is murdered. One death cascades into more, stretching across decades and leaving no one untouched &mdash; victims, bystanders, perpetrators, and those just trying to help. Eventually, the consequences lead to the center of a hot national debate on who should be allowed to live, who should die, and how the state should execute them.</p> <p>On <em>The Alabama Murders</em>, Malcolm Gladwell asks: why, in our efforts to alleviate suffering, do we …