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Tag: Austin Sarat
Botching the 8th Amendment
Does the death penalty constitute “cruel and unusual” punishment? by Austin Sarat
Oklahoma’s Botched Execution: A Game-Changer?
Debate over the death penalty has been reignited by a failed lethal injection. On Tuesday Clayton Lockett became the latest case in a long litany of botched executions to muddy America’s capital punishment record. European drug manufacturers, reluctant to associate their pharmaceuticals with the death …
This Is The Grisliest Appendix You’ve Ever Seen
A new book features some gruesome but illustrative end matter, not to be overlooked A long-time advocate for the abolition of capital punishment, Professor Austin Sarat, who teaches Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on …
’sup? @ SUP
It’s a new year and a new season for Stanford University Press, which of course means a new catalog! Now available for perusing, the Spring 2014 catalog features two co-published art books, a genre-bending memoir from a Parisian psychoanalyst, a book on botched executions that …
