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Anatomy of a Confession

by Michael May

  • March 24, 2015

A triple murder, a habitual liar on a stolen motorcycle and a confession that doesn’t add up.
Why would anyone confess to a crime they didn’t commit? On Life of the Law, the story of a man
dying of cancer on Texas’s Death Row who confessed to a crime he says he didn’t do.

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Use It or Lose It: A New Milestone on the Road to Abolition

by Austin Sarat, Professor, Amherst College

  • July 17, 2014

America has a choice, use the death penalty and execute those we condemn to death or lose the right to execute anyone.

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The Necessity Defense

by Cheryl Brumley

  • May 20, 2014

It’s odd to think cannibals, cannabis-growers, Vietnam War protesters, and prison escapees all have something in common. But they do: the necessity defense. We explore the origins and uses of this rare long-shot defense argument, which says in essence, “Yes, I’m guilty of committing a crime. But I had no choice.”

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A Mostly Untold Story: Botched Executions and the Legitimacy of Capital Punishment

by Austin Sarat

  • October 30, 2013

On September 28, 1900, the State of North Carolina hanged Art Kinsauls for a murder committed in Sampson County. Born in that county in 1865, Kinsauls lived there his entire life and married a local…

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