Please join us in congratulating our advisor, Judge Lupe Salinas, who was recently cited by the United States Supreme Court in the landmark lethal injection case!
From Justice Stevens’ concurrence:
"Full recognition of the diminishing force of the principal rationales for retaining the death penalty should lead this Court and legislatures to reexamine the question recently posed by Professor Salinas, a former Texas prosecutor and judge: "Is it time to Kill the Death Penalty?" See Salinas, 34 Am. J. Crim. L. 39 (2006). The time for a dispassionate, impartial comparison of the enormous costs that death penalty litigation imposes on society with the benefits that it produces has surely arrived. Baze v. Rees, 2008 U.S. LEXIS 3476, 82-83 (U.S. Apr. 16, 2008)
