Ep. 34: Austin Sarat on the Death Penalty and Building a New Constitution

Luke talks with Professor Austin Sarat about calls for a new constitution, popular discontent with politics, and why the death penalty is an affront to democracy, universal and equal rights.Professor Sarat is the author of two articles on the Constitution — “It's Time to Acknowledge America’s Constitutional System is Broken and Begin Building a New One” and “Coping with Constitutional Ignorance and Alienation” — as well as numerous books and articles about the death penalty.