Death Row Diaries, Part II Can watercolors change how you perceive a killer? Do murderers have a harder time sitting for portraits? TMN’s contributing illustrator Danny Gregory brings us a second installment of death row portraits.

Post-Traumatic Postcards Apologizing for the mistakes you’ve made isn’t easy, unless you limit yourself to a paragraph. Leslie Harpold keeps the sorries short and sweet, even when the regrets are long-lasting.

Letters from Russia: Remembering Chernobyl Eighteen years ago today, disaster struck Chernobyl and the world turned to the news – similarly as it has for North Korea’s recent train crash, with just as much misinformation. Kiev native Veronica Khokhlova recalls the days of secrecy and fear.

It’s a Grave Undertaking Pun-master and self-described ‘hauntrepreneur,’ Doug Antreassian offers a unique service in Salem, Mass.: a hearse-driven tour of the town describing past crimes and present. Dawn Eden reports from spook-central.