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…