Entries tagged with “John Hulbert”
Executions
Aug 24, 2026
Article of Interest: Law Review Article Considers the Human Cost of Execution Work
In her forthcoming article in the U.C. Irvine Law Review, Professor Alexandra L. Klein argues that the effect of executions on the people who carry them out has been largely overlooked in both legal scholarship and constitutional doctrine. If the state chooses to execute someone, she writes, someone must perform the killing, and the psychological consequences deserve a central place in conversations about cruelty under the Eighth Amendment. The author argues that evidence of harm to execution…