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3 weeks ago | 
caledonianrecord.com | Austin Sarat |Amherst College
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 23-month-old daughter, and he had been on death row ever since.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
sfgate.com | Austin Sarat |Amherst College
Photos released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections suggest that the prisoner, Brad Sigmon, will be strapped to a metal seat in the same small death chamber that has been the location of the state’s other executions by means of the electric chair and lethal injection.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
sfgate.com | Austin Sarat |Amherst College
(THE CONVERSATION) The start of President Donald Trump’s second term has been a bonanza for the attorneys general of blue states. As the president has released his blizzard of executive orders and axed federal funding and programs on which states rely, these attorneys general have filed suits designed to put the brakes on what Trump is trying to accomplish.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
metropolitandigital.com | Austin Sarat |Amherst College
The start of President Donald Trump’s second term has been a bonanza for the attorneys general of blue states[1]. As the president has released his blizzard of executive orders and axed federal funding and programs on which states rely, these attorneys general have filed suits[2] designed to put the brakes on what Trump is trying to accomplish. As the Washington Post reported[3] on Feb.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
dx.doi.org | Hilary Moss |Amherst College
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
cambridge.org | Hilary Moss |Amherst College
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Amherst College
Generative artificial intelligence is transforming the way we make, and think about, art. With prompting from human users, these generative systems now produce aesthetically compelling and seemingly creative works in a variety of artistic domains. In doing so, they challenge the ways we think about artistic credit, about creativity, and about the mechanism of legal copyright, which is meant to protect and promote creativity in a capitalist art market.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Amherst College |Biomedical Informatics
Obesity is a risk factor for increased lung damage and disease severity during influenza virus infection. White adipose tissue (WAT) inflammation is a key driver of disease pathogenesis in obesity. Whether and how obesity modifies lung and WAT immune cell character and function in obesity to amplify influenza disease severity remains unknown. We show that obesity establishes a proinflammatory transcriptome in lung immune cells that is further augmented upon influenza virus infection.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
newsone.com | Lara Trump |Austin Sarat |Amherst College |Bilal Morris
CLOSE Though crime and criminal justice policy are central issues in many elections, that’s not true in 2024. Surveys show that relatively few American voters rank crime as their most important concern. Yet both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris say they take those problems seriously.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
sfgate.com | Austin Sarat |Amherst College
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Though crime and criminal justice policy are central issues in many elections, that’s not true in 2024. Surveys show that relatively few American voters rank crime as their most important concern. Yet both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris say they take those problems seriously.
