The Endgame

Read Brick's story: Now comes the hard part: What kind of a person would do such a thing?

The question is not clear, not precise, not even based in discernible fact. It is existential. Spiritual, even. Requiring the peering into another man's soul.

But it is the central and arguably the only matter left to guide jurors as they ponder whether Mr. Wilson ought to die by lethal injection or live out his days in prison.

Here on the horizon of human comfort with human law, where some fear encroaching on the work of God, the law itself becomes unintentionally ambiguous.