Pamela Colloff's long but compelling Texas Monthly story about a boy's death and a mother's trial mixes science with questions of guilt and innocence, Nieman Storyboard reports: "We find out that the boy, Andrew, would have had to eat 23 teaspoons of Zatarain’s Creole Seasoning or 6 teaspoons of table salt to hit the lethal level." Plus an interview with Colloff about her specialty reporting on problematic convictions.
March 4, 2012