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SCOTUS, Midazolam, and Lethal Injection

by Nancy Mullane

• June 30, 2015

One day in 2012, I was given exclusive press access to California’s Death Row where more than 700 men live inside three separate cell blocks. I was allowed to speak with and interview any inmate…

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SCOTUS Doesn’t Care How You Kill A Person

by Austin Sarat

• June 30, 2015

The Supreme Court just guaranteed that America will continue its long-held tradition of botched executions. Today’s decision in Glossip v Gross, upholding the use of midazolam in lethal injections, is in keeping with the court’s…

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Massive Excitement and Farcical Rationale – SCOTUS 2015

by Hadar Aviram

• June 29, 2015

It has certainly been a momentous week of Supreme Court decisions, and in the massive excitement about upholding the Affordable Care Act and legalizing same-sex marriage, the mixed news in the criminal justice field may…

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The Arc of History

by Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan

• June 26, 2015

The Arc of History Today heartens us that the arc of history can, indeed, bend toward justice. Just this morning the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that all Americans have the same right to get…

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Newsletter: 23 Hours Alone

by Life of the Law

• June 17, 2015

New 6/16 Episode: SOLITARY WOMAN Solitary confinement is used in prisons to control the population. When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary– the penal version of ‘go to your room and think about what…

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Solitary in NY — HALT

by Annie Brown

• June 16, 2015

In 2010 the New York state legislature passed a law that offers treatment to prisoners diagnosed with mental illnesses instead of being placed in solitary confinement. That law limited the treatment option only for people…

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SCOTUS: Established By The State

by Casey Miner

• June 16, 2015

Any day now, the nine justices on the US Supreme Court are going to hand down the court’s second major decision on Obamacare. The issue in King v. Burwell is a four-word phrase in the…

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Newsletter: The President Speaks

by Life of the Law

• June 2, 2015

New 6/2 Episode: OSWALD IS STILL DEAD Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before he could stand trial for the assassination of JFK. But that hasn’t stopped people from putting him on trial, over and over again….

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Newsletter: Announcing… LIVE LAW the podcast series!

by Life of the Law

• May 19, 2015

New 5/19 Episode: DRAG.NET Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. On Reddit, on private chat sites, and…

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Reporter’s Notebook: Tipping the Scales

by Ashley Cleek

• May 7, 2015

You know how when you learn a new word, all of a sudden, you see it everywhere? Reporting’s like that. In January, I started looking into the election of judges in Alabama. I was reporting…