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Ultimate Punishment
Today on The Leonard Lopate Show, special guest host and CNN legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin. He will be joined by another lawyer, Scott Turow to discuss the political and legal intricacies of the death penalty. Then Journalists Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff talk about the horrific 2001 murder of two Dartmouth professors. Then Nina Burleigh on the mysterious benefactor who endowed the Smithsonian. And Joan Jacobs Brumberg on a 19th century boy murderer – she reminds us that the problem of kids who kill is a long-standing one.
Scott Turow
Scott Turow has spent a good part of his legal career prosecuting killers; he joins us to discuss the morality of the death penalty. His latest work of non-fiction is Ultimate Punishment. Read more on Scott Turow here. Read an excerpt of Turow's book in the Reading Room.
Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff
Journalists Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff on their book, Judgment Ridge. They look into the psychology of the teens arrested for the murder of two Dartmouth professors in 2001.
Nina Burleigh
Nina Burleigh on James Smithson, the man behind the Smithsonian Institution. In her recent book, The Stranger and the Statesman, she explores the life of a man who left half a million dollars for the establishment of an American institution, even though he’d never even set foot in the U.S.
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Joan Jacobs Brumberg on Kansas Charley, a study of a 19th century murderer named Charles Miller. He was executed in 1892 while still a teenager.
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