Tag: death penalty
50 years after landmark death penalty case, Supreme Court’s ruling continues...
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
The state of Oklahoma put James Coddington to death on Aug. 25, 2022, for the...
Pushing ‘closure’ after trauma can be harmful to people grieving –...
Nancy Berns, Drake University
From the breakup of a relationship to losing a loved one, people are often told...
A Catholic theologian argues for a death row inmate’s right to...
Dorian Llywelyn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments
on Nov. 9, 2021, in a case regarding a...
Tsarnaev Supreme Court appeal: Do unbiased jurors exist in an age...
Thaddeus Hoffmeister, University of Dayton
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on Oct. 13, 2021, in the case...
When families of murder victims speak at death penalty trials, their...
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
The Trump administration is spending its final months authorizing executions. Ten federal death row prisoners have been killed so far this...
Trump plan to revive the gallows, electric chair, gas chamber and...
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
The way the federal government can kill death row prisoners will soon be expanded to ghoulish methods that include hanging, the...
Why support for the death penalty is much higher among white...
Kevin O'Neal Cokley, University of Texas at Austin
Sentencing a person to die is the ultimate punishment. There is no coming back from the permanence...
Death penalty moratorium in California – what it means for the...
Hadar Aviram, University of California, Hastings
Both celebration – and ire – followed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement of a moratorium on the death penalty in...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
