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Ep. 34: Austin Sarat on the Death Penalty and Building a New Constitution
Published 11 months, 2 weeks ago
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Luke talks with Professor Austin Sarat about calls for a new constitution, popular discontent with politics, and why the death penalty is an affront to democracy, universal and equal rights.
Professor Sarat is the author of two articles on the Constitution — “It's Time to Acknowledge America’s Constitutional System is Broken and Begin Building a New One” and “Coping with Constitutional Ignorance and Alienation” — as well as numerous books and articles about the death penalty.