Book Talk + Signing with Corinna Barrett Lain: "Secrets of the Killing State"

Name: Book Talk + Signing with Corinna Barrett Lain: "Secrets of the Killing State"
Start: 2025-09-09T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 734 Harden St., Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29205

Schedule

Tue, 09 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

734 Harden St., Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29205 | Columbia, SC

Join us for a book talk and signing with Corinna Barrett Lain for her new book, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection. Corinna will be in conversation with Seth Stoughton, a law professor at USC’s School of Law.
Corinna Barrett Lain is the S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law and the author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (NYU Press, 2025). She is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the death penalty and one of the leading voices on criminal justice in Virginia more broadly. Lain is a former prosecutor, former sergeant in the Army, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a recipient of the University of Richmond’s Distinguished Educator Award.
Sponsored by South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (SCADP), whose mission is to abolish the death penalty and catalyze criminal justice reform in South Carolina. For more information please visit SCADP.org