Entries tagged with “Mary Atwell”

Jun 25, 2025

New Book of Interest: The ​“Slow Death” of U.S. Death Penalty

The death penal­ty in the Unites States is expe­ri­enc­ing what schol­ars call a​“slow death.” In their forth­com­ing book,​“The Slow Death of the Death Penalty: Toward a Postmortem,” edi­tors Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, and Mary Welek Atwell bring togeth­er death penal­ty experts to exam­ine this shift in the use of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. New death sen­tences and exe­cu­tions still occur in a lim­it­ed num­ber of states; but Peppers et al reflect on the broad­er trends away from use…

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Mar 27, 2017

New Podcast: Women and the Death Penalty, With Expert Guest Mary Atwell

“We live in a gen­dered soci­ety,” says Dr. Mary Atwell (pic­tured), one of the nation’s fore­most experts on women and cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, and the men and women who go to death row are dif­fer­ent. In the lat­est pod­cast episode of​“Discussions with DPIC,” com­mem­o­rat­ing Women’s History Month, Dr. Atwell says why…