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Litigating Salvation: Race, Religion And Innocence In The Karla Faye Tucker And Gary Graham Cases, Melynda J. Price
Litigating Salvation: Race, Religion And Innocence In The Karla Faye Tucker And Gary Graham Cases, Melynda J. Price
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The cases of Karla Faye Tucker and Gary Graham represent two examples of the renewed public debate about the death penalty in the State of Texas, and how religion and race affect that debate. This article explores how the Tucker and Graham cases represent opposing possibilities for understanding contemporary narratives of the death penalty. Though the juxtaposition of these two cases is not completely symmetrical, if viewed as a kaleidoscope—a complex set of factors filtered through the shifting identities of the person who is at the center of the immediate case—the hidden operations of race and religion can be examined. …
Act Up/Anita Bryant/Drugs, Religion, And Law/Lambda Legal Defense And Education Fund/Right To Reply And Right Of The Press/Sincerity Of Religious Belief, James M. Donovan
Act Up/Anita Bryant/Drugs, Religion, And Law/Lambda Legal Defense And Education Fund/Right To Reply And Right Of The Press/Sincerity Of Religious Belief, James M. Donovan
James M. Donovan
Six entries in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman, ed.).