Progressive publication Mother Jones recently quantifying the “state of crisis” of indigent criminal defense in the United States.
Constitutional
“Will Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Get the Death Penalty?”
“Will Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Get the Death Penalty?”
This was the question being investigated on the Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast. Here is a description of the show:
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother of the accused for the Boston marathon bombings, has become a face of the media lately. His prosecution and potential sentence raises many questions for both the public and the legal world. Attorneys and co-hosts J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi joinAttorney Jack Cunha and Professor Douglas Berman to discuss the prosecution and trial of the suspect.
- Jack Cunha, of Cunha & Holcomb, is a practicing criminal attorney based in Boston, Massachusetts. A former instructor at Suffolk and Harvard Law Schools, Cunha lectures nationally for various associations and schools such as The National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, Harvard Law, and CLE Programs mainly on criminal defense.
- Douglas Berman, Professor of Law at The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, has taught a myriad of courses at Ohio State including criminal law, criminal punishment and sentencing, and the death penalty. He is co-author of a casebook, Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines. He also writes a popular blog titled Sentencing Law and Policy.
Tune in to hear what these experienced professionals have to say as they answer questions such as: Although Massachusetts outlawed the death penalty in 1984, will prosecutors use federal law to seek the death penalty for Tsarnaev? Will the fact that the suspect is only 19 call for mitigation? and more.
Daily Show: Gun Control in Australia v. US
Daily Show: Gun Control in Australia v. US
Daily Show correspondent John Oliver discusses “political suicide” and “impossibility” of gun control. Oliver’s two part segment compares gun control in Australia versus gun control in the United States. Part I can be found here. Part II is here.
“Death By Fire”
Frontline tells the chilling tale of Cameron Todd Willingham, a man put to death in Texas in 2004.
Did Texas execute an innocent man?
Several controversial death penalty cases are currently under examination in Texas and in other states, but it’s the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham — convicted for the arson deaths of his three young children — that’s now at the center of the national debate.
Boston Bombings Coverage: The Ugly
Boston Bombings Coverage: The Ugly
Yesterday’s post featured Part II of our three-part series “Boston Bombings Coverage: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.” Part II, “The Bad,” was Jon Stewart’s satire of CNN’s embarrassing Boston bombings blunder. Part I, “The Good,” featured Fareed Zakaria’s shrewd take on the Boston bombings. Today’s post discusses another Jon Stewart clip and “The Ugly”–Fox News contributors falling over themselves to shred the Constitution in wake of the Boston Bombings.