UNDARK: When an intellectual disability means life or death.
Photo by Tasha A.F. Lemley
This piece for UNDARK podcast in partnership with Sci/Am covers nearly a year of reporting on a decades-long case. In this story I pitched, I unravel the story of Pervis Payne, a man with an intellectual disability sentenced to death, and the court battles to remove him from The Row. Reporting included multiple visits to court, pulling archival tape, sound design, and interviews with attorneys, nonprofit leaders, and scientists as well as family members.