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The Center for Public Research and Leadership, founded by Professor James Liebman, marks its 10th anniversary with groundbreaking reports documenting how the pandemic is revolutionizing the role of families in K-12 education—and why that’s good news.

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled 5-4 to uphold a procedure used by states to carry out executions by lethal injection, stating that use of the drug does not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, despite plaintiffs’ claims that the drug posed a risk of causing excruciating pain.

Justice Stephen Breyer issued a separate dissent in the case, Glossip v. Gross, writing that it is “highly likely that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment” and four times citing the work of death penalty expert Columbia Law School Professor James S. Liebman.