Jodi Picoult
Q&A;
Best-selling author Jodi Picoult often takes on moral quandaries in her work. Which is one of the reasons she sweet-talked her way onto Death Row. TIME caught up with her on the eve of her new book's release
TIME: One of the characters is a prisoner on death row. How did you study up on that?
Picoult: I sweet-talked my way to the death cells [at an Arizona prison]. Nobody I met on death row who works there believes in the death penalty. They all say it's their job.
TIME: How did that experience...
