In this National Law Journal op-ed, Fordham Law Dean Emeritus Matthew Diller reflects on the actions of the current Trump administration and questions whether the Supreme Court will uphold the rule of law. Read “The Roberts Court Reaps the Whirlwind” in National Law Journal.
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Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, sheds light on the history of the firing squad in this State article. Comparing firing squads to hangings, electrocutions, lethal gas and lethal injection, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a dissent in a 2017 Alabama case Arthur v. Dunn, “In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may be comparatively painless.” She cited a 2014 study of U.S. executions to note that 7% of the 1,054 lethal injections conducted between 1900 and 2010 were “botched” but that “none of…
As Arizona prepares for its first execution in three years next month, Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, spoke with 12News about whether an execution meets Eighth Amendment standards. Firing squads have been used since 1608 in colonial America, more than four centuries ago. “We’re the only country in the world that has six methods,” said Fordham University Law Professor Deborah Denno, one of the country’s leading experts on execution methods. “We’re always experimenting.” Lethal injection has fallen out of favor amid problems obtaining injection drugs and botched executions.…
In the race to become New York City’s next mayor, Democratic candidates began gathering signatures on Tuesday, Feb. 25, to qualify for the next primary. Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, broke down the requirements and petitioning process for New York City mayoral candidates to appear on the June primary ballot, with Spectrum News NY1’s “Inside City Hall.” Read “Mayoral candidates begin petitioning process to qualify for primary ballot” and watch the full segment on Spectrum News NY1.
Death by firing squad has a long history in the United States—and has historically been more closely associated with the military than with civilian prisoners—according to Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of Fordham Law’s Neuroscience and Law Center, in this New York Times article. Historical data suggests that at least 144 American inmates have been executed by shooting since 1608, though it is not clear how many involved firing squads. Of those, 40 were in Utah — more than any other state. A sort of automated firing squad was used to kill a prisoner in…
Nestor M. Davidson, the Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use, and Property Law at Fordham Law School, shares his expert opinion with National Law Journal after the Trump administration announced its justification for ending New York City’s traffic congestion pricing pilot program. The Trump administration’s decision to ax the program reverses a Biden-era Department of Transportation policy that strongly supported the city’s implementation of congestion pricing, on environmental grounds in particular. President Donald Trump, a native New Yorker, campaigned on ending congestion pricing. “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York is SAVED,” Trump wrote…
Bennett Capers, associate dean for research at Fordham Law, spoke Hell Gate about Judge Dale E. Ho’s appointment of an outside lawyer to ensure an adversarial process in the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Read “Federal Judge Appoints Attorney Not Obviously in Cahoots With Trump’s DOJ to Review Mayor Adams’s Dismissal” on Hell Gate.
Judge Dale E. Ho spent more than an hour questioning New York City Mayor Eric Adams, his attorney, and the Trump-appointed official who ordered the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to drop corruption charges against the mayor. But rather than immediately dismiss the charges, Judge Ho opted to take more time to consider his options before issuing a ruling. Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader joined Spectrum News NY1’s “Mornings on 1” to discuss all the potential outcomes that may follow, and how the case has been received within the wider legal community in New York…
Fordham Law Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, shared his expert legal opinion with The Christian Science Monitor on President Donald Trump’s latest accusations of what he believes to be a politically “weaponized” American justice system. The Adams case has now landed in a Manhattan courtroom. On Wednesday, DOJ officials laid out their arguments before U.S. District Judge Dale Ho as to why they want to end the prosecution. It’s rare for a dismissal motion to be rejected by a judge – especially, as in this case, when both parties support it. But…
Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, published an op-ed in the New York Law Journal article, arguing that today’s institutions and the norms that sustain our constitutional framework are being severely tested. He also listed ways in which everyday citizens can help promote the rule of law and contribute to the health of U.S. polity. Read “Proving Tilden Was Right” in New York Law Journal.