"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. . . Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”
- Migrant farm worker activist Cesar Chavez


Monday, April 21, 2008

Salinas quoted by U.S. Supreme Court!


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)