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4 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
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]
1 Mar 2024, 5:17 am by Beatrice Yahia
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Washington has given Israel 21,000 precision guided missiles since the start of the war. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
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 by Austin Sarat
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]
21 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Robert LaFollette, denouncing the Court’s child labor rulings as “judicial oligarchy,” proposed a constitutional amendment granting states the right to nullify opinions of the Court.[14] An Arizona congressman introduced a constitutional amendment requiring a seven-justice majority for any law to be declared unconstitutional (a proposal Kelley supported).[15] Idaho Senator William Borah proposed legislation to that end. [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 5:16 am by Beatrice Yahia
President Biden had dispatched CIA director William Burns to join the talks on Tuesday, where he met with the head of Israel’s intelligence agency, Qatar’s prime minister and high-level Egyptian officials, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, according to Egyptian media. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”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 by Austin Sarat
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]
2 Feb 2024, 5:00 am by Beatrice Yahia
Samia Nakhoul, Dan Williams, and Matt Spetalnick report for Reuters. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 4:52 am by Beatrice Yahia
William Jerome Rivers, 46, Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
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… [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 4:38 am by Beatrice Yahia
The White House is sending C.I.A. director William J. [read post]
23 Jan 2024, 7:42 am by Austin Sarat
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 by Austin Sarat
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]
15 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”For those troubled by the state’s use of ultimate punishments, ending LWOP should be next on the agenda.Follow @ljstprof Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. [read post]