Entries tagged with “Karen Gottlieb”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,History of the Death Penalty
,Religion
,Oct 17, 2018
ABA Panel Explores History, Morality of Death Penalty
“Has the death penalty evolved into an anachronism?” asked a panel at the August 2, 2018 American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Chicago. Moderator Ronald Tabak, chair of the ABA Death Penalty Committee, and panelists Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago; Karen Gottlieb, co-director of the Florida Center for Capital Representation; Meredith Martin Rountree, senior lecturer at the…
Facts & Research
United States Supreme Court
,Nov 30, 2017
The Courts Struck Down Florida’s Death-Sentencing Law in 2016. What’s Happened Since?
In 2016, both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Florida Supreme Court struck down Florida’s death-sentencing statute. Since then, the Florida courts and legislature have been figuring out how to apply those decisions to the nearly 400 condemned prisoners on the state’s death row. Executive Director Robert Dunham interviews Karen Gottlieb, the Co-Director of the Florida Center for Capital Representation at Florida International University, who discusses the court cases and what has happened in…