Video and Multimedia

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Video:

Video 1: How I Help Free Innocent People From Prison
https://www.ted.com/talks/ronald_sullivan_how_i_help_free_innocent_people_from_prison
Description: Harvard Law professor Ronald Sullivan fights to free wrongfully convicted people from jail--in fact, he has freed some 6,000 innocent people over the course of his career. He shares heartbreaking stories of how (and why) people end up being put in jail for something they didn’t do and the consequences in their lives and the lives of others. Watch this essential talk about the duty we all have to make the world a bit more fair every day, however we can.

Video 2: We Need to Talk About an Injustice
https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice
Description: In an engaging and personal talk--with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks--human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s Black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight, and persuasiveness.

Audio:

Audio 1: Supreme Court Rejects Texas Standard for Mental Disability in Capital Cases
https://www.npr.org/2017/03/28/521812738/supreme-court-rejects-texas-standard-for-mental-disability-in-capital-cases
Description: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state of Texas has been using an unconstitutional and obsolete medical standard for determining whether those convicted of murder are exempt from the death penalty because of mental deficiency.

Audio 2: An Argument Against Life Sentences, Especially for Juvenile Defendants
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/23/679592515/an-argument-against-life-sentences-especially-for-juvenile-defendants
Description: NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Robert Holbrook, who was given a life sentence, and Ashley Nellis, coauthor of the book The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences.

Web:

Web 1: The Sentencing Project
https://www.sentencingproject.org
Description: The Sentencing Project has worked for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system for 30 years.

Web 2: Death Penalty Information Center
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org
Description: The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related to the death penalty by itself and others to the news media and general public.