Justice Talking contributor Brad Linder reports on recent legislative efforts in New Jersey to abolish the state's death penalty.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with law professor John H. Blume about the current state of the death penalty around the country.
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John H. Blume
is an associate professor of law at Cornell University. He is a founder and the director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, which fosters empirical scholarship on the death penalty, offers students an opportunity to work on death penalty cases, and provides information and assistance for death penalty lawyers.
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Host Margot Adler interviews Deborah Denno about the history of lethal injection.
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Deborah Denno
is an Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law at Fordham University. She is a leading scholar on the death penalty and lethal injection and has written extensively on numerous aspects of capital punishment, especially the constitutionality of execution methods.
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Host Margot Adler is joined by pro-death penalty advocate Robert Blecker and anti-death penalty advocate Richard Dieter to debate the role of pain in capital punishment and whether lethal injection is inhumane.
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Robert Blecker
is a professor of law at New York Law School. He is a leading proponent of the death penalty.
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Host Margot Adler interviews public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson about how the death penalty disproportionately affects poor people and minorities.
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Bryan Stevenson
is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama and also a professor of law at the New York University School of Law.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with Harold Wilson about his life after he was exonerated from a death sentence.
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In 1999, Wilson's death sentence was overturned when it was determined that his defense counsel had failed to investigate and present mitigating evidence during his original trial. In 2003, Wilson was granted a new trial and the court ruled that, this time, the death penalty could not be sought. Wilson was acquitted of all charges on November 15, 2005, after new DNA evidence revealed blood from the crime scene that did not come from Wilson or any of the victims, suggesting the involvement of another assailant.
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You can contact Harold Wilson at:
Harold C. Wilson
P.O. Box 23
Manassas, VA 20110
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Host Margot Adler talks with court reporter Lyle Denniston about the most recent Supreme Court cases dealing with the death penalty.
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Lyle Denniston
is a veteran Supreme Court reporter. He has covered one of every four justices ever to sit on the court. He is currently covering the court for the Web log known as SCOTUSblog.
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