Assistant Professor of History, Emory University
Daniel LaChance is a legal scholar and cultural historian in Emory University's Department of History. He is the author of "Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States" (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
LaChance earned his B.A. in English from Carleton College and his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Prior to his appointment to the Emory faculty, he was an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Visiting Associate Research Scholar in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
Will a conservative Supreme Court give new life to the death penalty?
Apr 20, 2017 02:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
For years now, the death penaltys days have seemed numbered. Death sentences and executions are in decline. And some current Supreme Court justices have been pushing the court to revisit the constitutionality of capital...
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