Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Their previous collaborations for NYU Press include From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America "(2006), When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarraiges of Justice "(2009), and The Road to Abolition? The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States" (2010).