Broken Law - Episode 23: How the World Views the Death Penalty

Episode 23: How the World Views the Death Penalty

11/09/21 • 37 min

Throughout the world, the death penalty is in decline. Since 1976, more than 75 countries have abolished the death penalty, and many others have severely curtailed its use or abolished it in practice, if not in law. While this trend is reflected in parts of the United States, the federal government and many states retain capital punishment. How does this affect our country’s standing in the international community, particularly as a moral authority on issues like human rights? Christopher Wright Durocher speaks with Kristina Roth and Elizabeth Zitrin to answer this and other questions about how the world views the death penalty.

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Today's Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, ACS Senior Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Kristina Roth, Senior Advocate for Criminal Justice Programs at Amnesty International USA

Guest: Elizabeth Zitrin, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Witness to Innocence and past President and Senior Advisor of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Link: The Death Penalty in America

Link: Amnesty International on the Death Penalty

Link: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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Join the Progressive Legal Movement Today: ACSLaw.org

Today's Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, ACS Senior Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Kristina Roth, Senior Advocate for Criminal Justice Programs at Amnesty International USA

Guest: Elizabeth Zitrin, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Witness to Innocence and past President and Senior Advisor of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Link: The Death Penalty in America

Link: Amnesty International on the Death Penalty

Link: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Visit the Podcast Website: Broken Law Podcast

Email the Show: [email protected]

Follow ACS on Social Media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube

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Episode 22: Disability Law Is Broken

Disability law and policy is too often pushed to the edges of the legal field, left to folks from the disability community to both advocate for and navigate. But we know that these issues impact every aspect of our legal system and our collective daily lives. According to the Center for Disease Control, one in four adults has a disability in this country. How do we reform disability law so it actually achieves disability justice? Lindsay Langholz talks with Marissa Ditkowsky about the patchwork of laws that are too often treated as a ceiling instead of the floor when it comes to accessibility, and how we all can help fix disability law.

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Today's Host: Lindsay Langholz, ACS Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Marissa Ditkowsky, Diversity Chair, ACS District of Columbia Lawyer Chapter, and Tzedek DC’s 2019-2021 Gallogly Family Foundation Fellow

Link: "October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. How Can You Help Make the Legal Profession Less Exclusionary?" by Marissa Ditkowsky

Link: "Disability Justice is Gender Justice: Acknowledging Disabled Women This Women’s History Month" by Marissa Ditkowsky

Link: "Debunking Disability Enforcement Myths" by Jasmine Harris and Karen Tani

Link: The Americans with Disabilities Act

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Episode 24: On Native American Land

McGirt v. Oklahoma may be the most consequential recent Supreme Court case that you have never heard of. McGirt, decided in July 2020, stunned many Court watchers and Indian Law experts. Rather than uphold white political dominance, the Supreme Court ruled that a sizeable portion of Oklahoma remains Native American land. Why is this so consequential? Christopher Wright Durocher speaks with Amb. Keith Harper (Ret.) and Professor Maggie Blackhawk to answer this and other questions about McGirt and its enduring impact.

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Today's Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, ACS Senior Director of Policy and Program

Guest: Amb. Keith M. Harper (ret.), ACS Board of Directors and Chair of the Native American Practice at Jenner and Block

Guest: Maggie Blackhawk, NYU Law

Link: Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma

Link: "On Power & the Law: McGirt v. Oklahoma" by Maggie Blackhawk

Link: This Land Podcast

Link: Turtle Talk blog

Link: Tribal Supreme Court Project

Link: Indian Country Today. Digital. Indigenous. News.

Link: Indianz. Native American news, information and entertainment.