Eliza Steelwater | Death Penalty

January 11, 2008

Interview with Eliza Steelwater I [12:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We had the honor of speaking with Eliza Steelwater, expert on the death penalty, and author of The Hangman’s Knot. Today is the anniversary of the governor of Michigan’s commutation of more than a hundred death sentences. We speak about that, and also the recent New Jersey legislation to ban the death penalty in that state.
Eliza Steelwater’s biography from www.hangmansknot.com:

I was born and raised in New Orleans–a past I talk about in Chapter 6 of The Hangman’s Knot. My quest to make sense of the death penalty began after I received a four-year Alumni Federation fellowship to study at Louisiana State University. A doctoral degree and fifteen years of research, writing, and speaking followed, culminating in The Hangman’s Knot. I now live in Bloomington, Indiana, with my husband.