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Capital Punishment Clinic

Carol Steiker

We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

U.S. Supreme Court building.

Harvard Law faculty dissect several recent Supreme Court decisions

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‘The stakes have never been higher’ in the Capital Punishment Clinic

  • Death Penalty Defense Work

    November 18, 2022

    On November 15, Professor Carol Steiker led a conversation with recent HLS graduates and Capital Punishment Clinic alumni working in the area of death penalty…

  • Empowering the Powerless on Death Row

    May 30, 2019

    Credit: Fabiola Perez Castro J.D. ’19 By: Fabiola Perez Castro, J.D. ’19 When I set foot inside the Allen B. Polunsky Unit in Texas, my…

  • Matters of Life or Death

    September 6, 2018

    Via The Harvard Gazette Credit: Kris Snibbe It was a chilly afternoon outside the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, a maximum-security prison for death-row inmates…

  • Reflecting on capital punishment

    May 16, 2016

    By Ke’Andra Levingston, J.D. ’17 Ke’Andra Levingston, J.D. ’17 One of the greatest learning experiences I had while at Texas Defenders was seeing the intersection…