Articles, Interviews & Media Appearance

The Guardian — Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers — April 17, 2025

NBC News Daily — Interview — March 7, 2025

NPR/KOSU-FM (Oklahoma) — Book Preview/Interview — March 6, 2025

Arizona Mirror — Arizona pushes forward with execution plan as federal government abandons same drug — January 23, 2025

ABC News (Phoenix) — Warrant of execution for convicted killer Aaron Gunches likely to be decided in February — January 8, 2025

Arizona Mirror — The ‘inner terror’ of lethal injection is cruel, law prof argues in bid to stop Gunches execution — January 6, 2025

BBC — UN slams new controversial method of execution in US — January 25, 2024

C-SPAN — Justice Kennedy and Criminal Procedure — October 5, 2018

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Podcasts

Extrema Ratio (Bologna, Italy) — Intervista a Corinna Barrett Lain — December 1, 2023

Public Defenseless — Secrets of the Killing State: How the Truth of Lethal Injection Could End the Death Penalty w/Corinna Lain — June 13, 2023

Supreme Myths — Professor Corinna Barrett Lain — September 29, 2021

Faithful Politics — “Executing Virginia” w/Professor Corinna Lain — July 6, 2021

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Quotes

The Marshall Project — She’s waited decades for David Wood’s execution. Now, evidence casts doubt on his guilt — March 7, 2025

Stateline — Trump’s death penalty push faces resistance in some red states — March 7, 2025

The Post and Courier (SC) — Experts say firing squad executions are quick and sure. Why are they rarely used in the US? — March 4, 2025

Arizona Mirror — ‘Verify, but do not trust’; Arizona’s troubling execution history continues — March 3, 2025

Arizona Capitol Times — Supreme Court rejects prisoner’s wish to be executed on Valentine’s Day — January 8, 2025

Washington Post — A death row inmate wants to be executed early for ‘justice’ — January 7, 2025

NewsNation — 40 inmates are on federal death row. Advocates want Biden to spare them — November 19, 2024

The Week — Why some critics are so horrified by Alabama’s new execution method — September 22, 2023

Slate — Botched Executions Aren’t New—but Americans Finally Seem to Be Noticing Them — December 21, 2022

ABA Journal — Barrett joined dissenting liberal justices as Supreme Court allowed execution of inmate seeking nitrogen death — September 26, 2022

Scientific American — Nitrogen Execution Method Touted as More ‘Humane,’ but Evidence Is Lacking — September 23, 2022

The Washington Post — McAuliffe officials try to get Va. House to change vote on lethal injection — February 25, 2015