Austin SaratinThe ConversationRejected Oklahoma plea for death penalty commutation highlights clemency’s changing role in US…Despite support for clemency from Oklahoma’s top prosecutor, a death row inmate appears set to die on May 18.May 2, 20235May 2, 20235
Austin SaratBotched Executions Aren’t New — but Americans Finally Seem to Be Noticing ThemLast week, the Death Penalty Information Center, an organation that collects data on capital punishment, released its year-end report…Feb 25, 2023Feb 25, 2023
Austin SaratArizona Case May Change the National Conversation About Race and Capital PunishmentAmerica’s death penalty always has been haunted by the specter of racial prejudice and discrimination. The Reverend Jesse Jackson captured…Feb 24, 2023Feb 24, 2023
Austin SaratGOP governor’s study offers backstage view into negligence and cruelty of lethal injection processExecution by lethal injection is a mess. It is the least reliable of any method of execution ever used in this country, and 2022 brought…Jan 12, 2023Jan 12, 2023
Austin SaratWhen the Time Comes, I’d Like to Die on My Own Terms — But the Massachusetts Supreme Court Won’t…2022 was a bad year for substantive due process claims in American constitutional law. The low point came in Dobbs v. Mississippi, when…Jan 3, 2023Jan 3, 2023
Austin SaratBotched Executions Aren’t New — but Americans Finally Seem to Be Noticing ThemLast week, the Death Penalty Information Center, an organization that collects data on capital punishment, released its year-end report…Dec 22, 20221Dec 22, 20221
Austin SaratTrump comes clean: Says America should ‘terminate’ the ConstitutionFormer President Trump has finally come clean about his hostility to the American Constitution and his willingness to overthrow the…Dec 6, 2022Dec 6, 2022
Austin SaratWith America’s Death Penalty, New Evidence Shows that Familiarity Breeds ContemptAcross this country, proponents of capital punishment are playing defense. They are doing so because the death penalty has been tarnished…Nov 24, 2022Nov 24, 2022
Austin SaratHow Trump’s Supreme Court Helped Save American Democracy from TrumpWho would have thought that the Supreme Court that Donald Trump refashioned would prompt Americans to reassert the values of democracy?Nov 15, 2022Nov 15, 2022
Austin SaratAbandoned: Trump’s Election Denialism Meets 2022 Electoral RealityDonald Trump reportedly had a plan to do an encore of his 2020 election denialism and to sow chaos in Tuesday’s midterm election. It…Nov 12, 2022Nov 12, 2022
