Social science continues to tell us that eyewitness testimony is flawed and is responsible for a lot of innocent people getting convicted. In light of this increasing body of evidence, criminal defense attorneys have argued that absent expert...
We live a world of unparalleled scientific innovation; it’s a good thing, too, because we are wholly dependent on the scientific process to resolve the issues related to feeding the 7 billion people on the planet without destroying the earth in...
It was a great mistake to put routine drug offenses into the federal courts. United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on October 2, 2011. As I was finishing law school in 1993 and...
Georgia authorities executed Troy Davis by lethal injection Wednesday night. He was declared dead at 11:08 EDT. Originally post in the Harvard Law & Policy Review
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles announced this morning that it has denied Troy Davis’ request for clemency. He will be executed by lethal injection at 7:00 P.M. tomorrow, Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Originally post in...
Troy Davis’s two decade legal odyssey beginning with his 1989 arrest for the murder of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail reaches its climax at today’s final clemency hearing, the last stop before his execution on Wednesday, September...
