theatlantic: Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man At 11 p.m Monday, the Columbia University Human Rights Review published and posted its Spring 2012 issue — devoted entirely to a single piece of work about the life and death of two troubled and troublesome South Texas men. In explaining to their readers why an entire issue would be devoted to just one story, the editors of the Review said straightly that the “gravity of the subject matter of the Article and the possible far-reaching policy ramifications of its publication necessitated this decision.” […] The Review article is an astonishing blend of narrative journalism, legal research, and gumshoe detective work. And it ought to end all reasonable debate in this country about whether an innocent man or woman has yet been executed in America since the modern capital punishment regime was recognized by the Supreme Court in 1976. The article is also a clear and powerful retort to Justice Scalia in Kansas v. Marsh: Our capital cases don’t have nearly the procedural safeguards he wants to pretend they do. Read more. [Image: Corpus Christi Police Department] This week the journal I helped edit in law school published an incredible, genre-breaking issue documenting how Texas executed an innocent man.  The Atlantic’s summary/companion piece is linked above.  Not only can you read the issue online, for free, but you can read all of the thousands of underlying documents, evidence and files.  A project like this really makes me excited to see how technology can be harnessed to improve the legal system!  
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Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man

At 11 p.m Monday, the Columbia University Human Rights Review published and posted its Spring 2012 issue — devoted entirely to a single piece of work about the life and death of two troubled and troublesome South Texas men. In explaining to their readers why an entire issue would be devoted to just one story, the editors of the Review said straightly that the “gravity of the subject matter of the Article and the possible far-reaching policy ramifications of its publication necessitated this decision.” […]

The Review article is an astonishing blend of narrative journalism, legal research, and gumshoe detective work. And it ought to end all reasonable debate in this country about whether an innocent man or woman has yet been executed in America since the modern capital punishment regime was recognized by the Supreme Court in 1976. The article is also a clear and powerful retort to Justice Scalia in Kansas v. Marsh: Our capital cases don’t have nearly the procedural safeguards he wants to pretend they do.

Read more. [Image: Corpus Christi Police Department]

This week the journal I helped edit in law school published an incredible, genre-breaking issue documenting how Texas executed an innocent man.  The Atlantic’s summary/companion piece is linked above.  Not only can you read the issue online, for free, but you can read all of the thousands of underlying documents, evidence and files.  A project like this really makes me excited to see how technology can be harnessed to improve the legal system!  

(via motherjones)

Source: The Atlantic

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