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Hostility to Mercy

Hostility to Mercy

Strict Scrutiny · Strict Scrutiny

August 8, 202251m 26s

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Show Notes

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.

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