Entries by Ava Boris

In the July 2026 episode of 12:01: The Death Penalty in Context, DPI​’s Executive Director Robin M. Maher speaks with Samuel Spital, Associate Director Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF). To mark the 50^th anniver­sary of the Supreme Court’s deci­sion in Gregg v. Georgia, they explore the his­to­ry of the land­mark case, the piv­otal role played by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the lit­i­ga­tion, and the endur­ing lega­cy of leg­endary LDF attor­ney Anthony Amsterdam. They…

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