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UrduThe Supreme Court decided today to reinstate the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. John Blume is a professor of law at Cornell Law School and director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project. He has argued eight cases…
Tag: Death Penalty
Malawi abolishes death penalty: historic ruling, felt far and wide
This week, Malawi’s Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty ordering the re-sentencing of at least 37 people known to be under a death sentence. Sandra Babcock, director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and a partner in…
IU experts available to comment on delayed executions of federal death row inmates
INDIANAPOLIS and BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The United States was set to execute federal death row inmates for the first time in 17 years starting this week, until a federal judge stopped the first one from being carried out to allow…
Supreme Court victory hinged on evidence of racism
Cornell Law School professors Sheri Lynn Johnson and Keir Weyble took over Curtis Flowers’ appeal to the Supreme Court and won.