Letters from Death Row: Alone on the Inside
In an informal Observer survey, death row inmates describe a world of extreme isolation, where mental illness is both cause and symptom.
Alex Hannaford
Born in London, Alex Hannaford cut his teeth in journalism on the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and newspapers on the south coast of England before joining London’s Evening Standard as a feature writer and later commissioning editor. Since moving to the US in 2003, he has written about the death penalty, crime, harsh sentencing, immigration and refugees, religion, culture and human rights issues for publications like British GQ, The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph magazines, The Guardian & Observer, The Independent, The Atlantic, and The Texas Observer.
Articles by Alex Hannaford
Pit Stop
Nordheim inherits the waste, and few of the profits, from the South Texas oil boom.
Hope After Violence
Women veterans are twice as likely as men to experience PTSD. We just don’t talk about it.
Worth a Shot
As vaccination rates drop, once-rare diseases like whooping cough and measles come roaring back.
Life in the Dead Zone
An ailing Texas fishing industry contends with the threat of hypoxia in the Gulf.
The Standoff in Waco
Twenty years on, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound and the tragedy that followed still haunts those who were there.