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‘Redemption’ review: Lawrence Wright asks should society get on that road?

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New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright’s latest nonfiction narrative, “Redemption,” begins with an intriguing, real-life premise: an unlikely series of encounters between seven female convicts on Texas’ death row and a convent of nuns. A Catholic prison deacon, Ronnie Lastovica, orchestrated the meetings because he saw commonalities between the two groups. Both were leading unconventional,…