Hostility to Mercy
Strict Scrutiny
English - August 08, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsGovernment News courts law legal culture scotus supreme court Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Leah talks with Lee Kovarsky of the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas about the Supreme Court's treatment of death penalty cases. Before 2020, there hadn't been a federal execution since 2003. In the last six months of the Trump presidency, there were 13. Lee tells us how that came to be, and what the justices' writings signal for future death penalty cases.
Read Lee's article, "The Trump Executions," in the University of Texas Law Review