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May 01, 2017
Walter Ogrod was convicted and sentenced to death in Philadelphia in 1996 for the 1988 murder of a 4‑year-old girl, whose body was found in a discarded television box. Ogrod, who is developmentally disabled, has long maintained his innocence, but …
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Feb 20, 2017
In his newest book, The Death Penalty As Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition, John Bessler chronicles the historical link between torture and the death penalty from the Middle Ages to the present day and argues that …
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Nov 18, 2016
In 1986, California voters removed Rose Bird, the state’s first female supreme court chief justice, from office after conservative groups spent more than $10 million in a recall effort that portrayed her as “soft …
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Nov 01, 2016
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment by Harvard Law Professor Carol S. Steiker and University of Texas Law Professor Jordan M. Steiker examines the U.S. Supreme Court’s “extensive — and ultimately failed…
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Sep 01, 2016
In a new book, Against the Death Penalty, Professor John Bessler of the University of Baltimore School of Law presents Justice Stephen Breyer’s historic dissent in
