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Kelley Henry
Kelley Henry is the Chief of the Federal Public Defender Capital Habeas Unit in Nashville, Tennessee. Kelley supervises a staff of 20. Together they represent more than half of Tennessee’s death row. Kelley is also lead counsel in two federal… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt | Bruno Latour on Truth and Praxis
TAVP | Oral History with Lee Greenwood
Video One LYDIA CRAFTS: Does she live in the Houston area? LEE GREENWOOD: Yes she does. CRAFTS: Great, thank you so much. LEE GREENWOOD: He would be, I think, elated at the fact that after all these years… Continue Reading
Federal Capital Habeas Project v. Barr Complaint
Brittney Bringuez | “Well, the goal for them is to kill him one day.”
By Brittney Bringuez The seventeen state and federal executions that took place in 2020 and Abolition Democracy 8/13’s readings confirm two things. First, the death penalty is more barbaric and atrocious than any adjective could describe and must be abolished.… Continue Reading
Lee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood is the mother of Joseph Nichols, who was executed on March 7th, 2007. She shared her story with the Texas After Violence Project and discusses Joseph’s life, his friends, his giving character, and the injustices they suffered at… Continue Reading
Susannah Sheffer
Susannah Sheffer is a licensed clinical mental health counselor and a writer and researcher focusing on the impact of the death penalty. Her 2013 book Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys (Vanderbilt University Press) is based on… Continue Reading
A Recap of 7/13
By a graduate student in the seminar Building on Abolition 6/13’s discussion about the abolition of capital, Abolition 7/13 discussed the abolition of the punitive system, which, Michel Foucault suggested in his book The Punitive Society, arose at least partly… Continue Reading