Newt Gingrich once said that the key to building a new conservative majority in the United States rests with “low taxes and the death penalty.” At least insofar as the death penalty is concerned, a generation of politicians has cultivated exactly the public sentiment Gingrich was counting on. From Richard Nixon’s “law and order” rhetoric […]
Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College., He is the author of When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition, and most recently edited From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race And the Death Penalty in America.
