Monstrous Acts

About this Episode

We’re joined by long-time listener and federal public defender Josh Lee to discuss the death penalty. We talk about Josh’s practice, death row, the latest death penalty decision’s substance and tone, and whether the death penalty will last much longer.

This show’s links:

• About Josh Lee
• Amicus: The Term in Review, episode 23 of Dahlia Lithwick’s excellent Supreme Court podcast
• Oral Argument 66: You’re Never Going to Get It All Done
• Federal Public Defender Organization, Eastern District of Arkansas
• About the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
• Ake v. Oklahoma (guaranteeing a right to psychiatric exam to prepare a criminal defense); see also Ward v. State, an Arkansas Supreme Court decision noting the court’s belief that “a defendant's rights are adequately protected by an examination at the state hospital, an institution that has no part in the prosecution of criminals”
• ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases
• Josh Lee, Determinism and the Death Penalty
• Williams v. Hobbs
• Glossip v. Gross
• Josh Lee, Dignity Kennedy, Burkean Kennedy, and Libertarian Kennedy
• Josh Lee, Judicial Abolition from Below
• Bill Mears, Justice Breyer Robbed at Machete-Point During Caribbean Vacation
• Doug Berman, "Anti-Death Penalty Activists Are Winning The Fundraising Battle In Nebraska"
• Casetext
• Christopher McCrudden, Human Dignity and Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights; see also Christopher McCrudden, Understanding Human Dignity (the introduction of which is here)