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In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value

  • Written by Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest valueBetween 1976 and 2015, 80% of Louisiana's capital sentences were later reversed.Bernd Obermann/Getty Images

Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his capital murder conviction and he would no longer face the prospect of execution. In 1998, a jury convicted Duncan of murdering his girlfriend’s...

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