Associate Professor of Law at W&L Law. Death Penalty, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure. RPCV Moldova 🇲🇩2008-2010. She/Her. All views my own.
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Alex Klein
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SSRN responded to Bainbridge’s complaints with some “clarifications” (or changes, I don’t know which) and they are all good news. The part I cared about — the license— is much better now
And it got remanded back to the district court concluded air hunger for 1-3 minutes isn’t a problem & the 11th Circuit told them that was not the case. Alabama’s probably going to appeal this. Super interesting discussion in there about finding firing squad executioners.
My kid asked me a question about self defense today.
Me: Well, you know my answer.
Kid: I know, it depends.
An important description of what happened during Tennessee's attempts to execute Tony Carruthers:
NEW: Federal judge blocks Trump admin's effort to move 14 trans women to men's prisons.
"[I]t is fundamentally unreasonable for prison officials to respond to serious risks ... by intentionally creating those risks and offering to treat them after they predictably occur."
Today, at Law Dork:
Many folks rightly up in arms over the news that SSRN is discontinuing its research paper series, that published works won't be eligible for posting, and that pre-prints will require authors to license away their work for commercial reuse, likely by AI www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...
Know a junior scholar who would benefit from the Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM at @law.stanford.edu this fall (cosponsored with @penncareylaw.bsky.social and Northwestern Law)? Please encourage them to submit by June 15! conferences.law.stanford.edu/stanford_jff...
Lee actually won a method of execution challenge on nitrogen gas in district court in Alabama after remand from the 11th Circuit & showed the firing squad is a readily available alternative & Alabama has no legitimate penological reason not to use it.
