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Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the limits of justice

In 2021, a security guard in Spain stormed into his workplace and shot four people. He was caught, badly injured, and a trial was set – but his victims would never get to see him punished. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy

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  The war on Japanese knotweed

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  Erdogan’s earthquake: how years of bad government made a disaster worse

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  From the archive: The man in the iron lung

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  The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysterie…

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  How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

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  ‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus

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  From the archive: How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket

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  Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of year…

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  Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plu…

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  From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is…

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  Are coincidences real?

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  ‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarde…