What Sarat (theWilliam Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College, as his bio on the back flap says, in collaboration with four students: Katherine Blumstein, Aubrey Jones, Heather Richard, and Madeline Sprung-Keyser) has done is to examine every legal execution in the U.S. between 1890 and 2010 and catalogue all the ones that have gone wrong. [read post]

INTRODUCTION In the first of these two Slaw posts, I wrote about the two inquiries into Ontario Court of Justice (“OCJ”) judge Donald McLeod’s alleged misconduct. [read post]