From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

DNA evidence helped link a man to the 2003 sexual assault of an Austin woman in Arizona. 19 states currently require DNA collection during all felony arrests, including Texas.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...