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21 May 2024, 9:01 pm
The United States Supreme Court has gone rogue. [read post]
16 May 2024, 9:01 pm
First, what happened in Alameda County is typical of the prejudices that course through America’s death penalty system.And second, it is just another example of why ending capital punishment is long overdue.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
9 May 2024, 9:01 pm
”Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
5 May 2024, 9:01 pm
He needs to show his support for Israel, hold the line against law-and-order attacks, but also not alienate younger voters, some of whom are either protesting what is happening in Gaza or are sympathetic to the positions protesters are taking.Whether the war in Gaza, as Senator Bernie Sanders warns, will turn out to be Biden’s Vietnam and tip the election in Trump’s direction, remains to be seen.It would be a supreme irony if the effort on college campuses to speak up for human rights… [read post]
30 Apr 2024, 9:00 pm
”Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
They must act in concert to respond to attacks like Mike Johnson’s.Now is the time for all those who value what higher education contributes to our society to rally to their defense.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
21 Apr 2024, 9:00 pm
But given the stereotypes about the Black body that pervade our society, it is not surprising that Black inmates receive different and worse treatment than White inmates in the execution chamber and that they pay a high price for our illusory and failed quest for a humane execution method.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
14 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
We can only hope that one day the Court will change its mind and say definitively that executing such a person violates the Eighth Amendment.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
His effort is a reminder that doing justice, and ensuring that justice is done, has no statute of limitations.It is a lesson that other prosecutors should learn.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
31 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
”Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
His challenge is to get voters to put nostalgia aside and focus on the kind of future that a second Biden term can offer them.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
Political leaders, public officials, and citizens need to prepare now for the fierce battle that will occur if Joe Biden wins in November.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
”The Superior Court of Fulton County has a chance to lift the secrecy if not end of shame of Georgia’s plan to kill Willie James Pye.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
10 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
But the real price of his failure, and the strategy that produced it, will be paid by the Court itself in a further erosion of its reputation for impartiality and its standing with the American people.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 12:34 pm
In his article in Verdict discussing this case, Austin Sarat, a professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, argues that “systemic issues and denial by state officials perpetuate the cruelty and inefficiency of lethal injections, urging an acknowledgment of its failures and a cessation of its use for capital punishment”. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
That is reason enough to stop executing at all.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
It is long past time to acknowledge its ongoing, inescapable failures and stop subjecting people on death row to its particular form of cruelty.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
25 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
That is why Alabama should not be allowed to carry out another nitrogen hypoxia execution.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 9:30 pm
Austin Sarat on The Gas Chamber, 100 Years of Cruelty (Verdict). [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
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