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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
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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
”Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
”That is what matters, not the ageism of Hur’s report.In November, when voters are faced with a choice between two old men, I hope that they will focus on what Biden has done and promises to do to improve their lives and to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
But it does nothing to address what the death penalty does to those who administer it or the profound problems that plague it in Oklahoma and everywhere the state kills.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 4:00 am
The death penalty scholar Austin Sarat measures the lethal injection "botch" rate at 7.12%. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
We should have learned by now that no new method can assure that executions will be safe, reliable, and humane.With his death, Kenneth Smith now joins William Kemmler (electrocution), Gee Jon (the gas chamber), and Charles Brooks (lethal injection) on the list of people who were put to death by a previously untried execution method and whose botched executions became gruesome spectacles.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell… [read post]
23 Jan 2024, 7:42 am
For the Court to remain silent about that choice, or to avoid facing it squarely, would do an extraordinary disservice not only to Richard Glossip, but to all Americans who believe it is wrong to punish the innocent.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
21 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
His petition offers the Court as clear an opportunity as one can imagine to oppose racism in capital cases and stand up for simple justice.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
As Austin Sarat observed in his column on this site last week, that claim contradicts what Trump’s lawyers told the Senate during his second impeachment trial in 2021 as well as the plain logic of the Constitution’s Article I, Section 3, Clause 7.To see why the Trump claim is manifestly illogical, consider the constitutional language, to which I have added the letters A and B for clarity: [A] Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from… [read post]
