BOOK REVIEW – Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, New York, Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, 2014, 336pp. Paperback 2015 Reviewed By Alan W. Clarke Your Honor … It was far too easy to convict this wrongly accused man for murder and send him to death row for something he [...]
Ending the Unconstitutional Torture of Three-Drug Lethal Injections: A Rebuke of Glossip v. Gross
By Linda Lindhorst I. Introduction Oklahoma state officials escorted Clayton Lockett into the execution chamber and strapped him into the gurney.1 The State scheduled what was supposed to be a quick and painless lethal injection for 6:00 PM. The executioners began by injecting Lockett with midazolam, a controversial and largely un-tested muscle relaxant,2 followed by [...]
Watching the Watchers: Monitoring Police Performance as Public Servants
By Karl T. Muth & Nancy Jack Introduction If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, what is a video worth? Apparently, quite a bit more. The proliferation of cell phone cameras has raised a new debate: whether people can record the activities and conduct of police in public areas. Several cases are making their [...]
By Jennifer M. Smith Part I of this article can be found in the last issue of the National Lawyers Guild Review. See Jennifer M. Smith, The Color of Pain: Blacks and the U.S. Health Care System—Can the Affordable Care Act Help to Heal a History of Injustice? Part I, 72 NLG Rev. 238 (2015) [...]