News Sources: Supreme Court and Lethal Injections

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today on whether lethal injection causes excruciating pain for death row inmates and violates the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them on the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Richard Moran - Professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College -Moran is a criminologist whose opinion pieces appear frequently in leading newspapers. He is a commentator for NPR's "Morning Edition" and a leading expert on public policy in crime control, capital punishment and incarceration.

Austin Sarat - William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College - Sarat studies legal theory and is especially interested in the death penalty, to which he is opposed.

M. Margaret Falls-Corbitt - Professor of Philosophy, Hendrix College - Falls-Corbitt is an ethicist who writes and lectures on ethics, religion, the death penalty and the penal system.