Austin Sarat
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Oct 1, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Slate Magazine
- Top 50K sites
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- Aug 13, 2026
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Christa Pike’s Botched Execution Is a Travesty. Blame the Supreme Court’s MAGA Majority. (opens the original)
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Sign up for Executive Dysfunction, a weekly newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing back—and keeps you posted on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. The state of Tennessee tried to put Christa Pike to death on Wednesday, in what was an embarrassing spectacle of cruelty. It was cruel because executing her decades after the crime that brought her to death row served no legitimate purpose, and because the person whom
This State Hasn’t Executed a Woman in 200 Years. It Is Picking the Worst Possible Way to Go Back. (opens the original)
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Sign up for Executive Dysfunction, a weekly newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing back—and keeps you posted on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. The United States rarely executes women, no matter how gruesome their crimes. In fact, only 18 women have been put to death in this country in the past 50 years. That translates to around 1 percent of the executions carried out in that period. The most recent one occu
Death Penalty Supporters Say There’s No Proof of the Innocent Being Executed. Virginia Might Prove Them Wrong. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The possibility of executing the innocent has gone a long way to change the national conversation about the death penalty. We know that over the past half-century, more than 200 people have been exonerated after having been sentenced to die, and scholars estimate that 4 percent of those sentenced to death are innocent. And a 2021 Pew poll found that 78 percent of its respo
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