Photo: Jean/Getty Lil Wayne makes his living as the bestselling rapper on the planet, but while serving his year-long jail sentence at New York’s Rikers Island, Weezy has entirely new job: keeping watch over suicidal inmates. Antonia “Toya” Johnson, the mother of one of...

Attorney David Dow has made his career on arguing on behalf of inmates sentenced to death. Many of his clients have died — most of them were guilty. In his new book, The Autobiography of an Execution, Dow argues that they should have been sentenced to life rather than death. »...