Sunday, April 05, 2026

Academic Disaster: William and Mary U

As of April 5, 2026 it appears that W&M has chosen to accept the Lain disaster, without correction, another sad episode in academia, for students, faculty, staff and leadership.

Reply to W&M Phil Dept Chair Chris Tucker, 
re  Academic Disaster: Prof. Corinna Barrett Lain
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Academic Disaster: Prof. Corinna Barrett Lain 
Dudley Sharp  
From: sharpjfa@aol.com 
Bcc: jhadler@wm.edu , schroeder@wm.edu , publicpolicy@wm.edu , cdbyrn@wm.edu , ebakhtiari@wm.edu and 462 more...  Apr 2-4, 2026

To: Sponsor: W&M Public Policy, Faculty, Affiliated Scholars & Board of Advisors   
All faculty and staff, Philosophy, Government, & Economics Depts & Law School
All Administrative Depts., College of Arts and Sciences  
The Schroeder Center    
Students throughout W&M     

Subject: Full Rebuttal of Prof. Corinna Lain, within the referenced     

Re: Book Tour, Corinna Barrett Lain '92 – Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection March 25, 2026 4:30pm - 6pm, William and Mary U, Sadler Center, Tidewater A,    Sponsor, WM Public Policy     

From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, (pro) death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom

Dear W&M:     

It appears that you did not research, fact check nor vet "Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection", prior to your referenced event. How does that happen, when those steps are fundamental to academia? 

From my experience, with this topic, within academia, if you write what they like, they won't investigate. A very bad example for students, faculty and their institutions.     

Starting nearly a year ago, I did investigate, as Prof. Lain is, well, aware. See all research, fact checking, vetting and critical thinking, below (FN 1). What you will find is the Lain disaster.     

Will W&M care? If like the U of Richmond, you will care, very much, to continue this disaster, without correction. I hope that is not the case, with W&M.     

Sincerely, Dudley Sharp    
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FN 1     

Academic Disaster:  Do Ethics Matter?  U of Richmond, Law Professor Corinna Barrett Lain, U of Richmond Law Review, as other law reviews, & U of Richmond School of Law: A Compilation, Dec 7, 2025

To: all at U of Richmond, the book tours, law reviews and all others, as detailed in 1a,b,c, below and many, many more, here:      

Re: Rebuttal: Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection, Law Prof. Corinna Barrette Lain, NYU Press, April 2025  as well as others

 From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, (pro) death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom     

Preface              

With research, fact checking and vetting, very obvious and easy critical thinking, one finds that Lain, only, included that which would promote an anti-death penalty script, which is how she, easily and constantly, left out everything which contradicted her book, as per her book tour and the book reviews. 

Obvious and, easily, confirmed, as throughout my writings, below, and not rebutted. Classic anti-death penalty FEMS (fraud, error and/or mis-directions), as detailed, the example the University is setting for their students and for academia.            

How did the University make it worse?:            

Instead of condemnation and correction,  The U of Richmond School of Law and Law Review doubled down with a public symposium "Advancing Abolition: Anti-Death Penalty Advocacy in Regressive Times" on Oct 3, 2025 featuring Profs Bergen and Lain, previously rebutted, as well known by those institutions.       

The ethics lesson for students and academia could not be worse. Intentional and obvious.       

Will the University right this ethics ship? By their example, they will sink it. 

Note the dates in the links, below, while noting the symposium date.     

(If you would like me to rebut and/or clarify the symposium speakers, let me know where you will commit to publishing that, within the university's publications)    
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There are a number of  groups dealing with ethics in academia, which I will review, later. I suggest U of Richmond work with them.  
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1) Full rebuttal to Lain's book, as per her book tours and the book reviews, with others:     

Read, in order     
a) edit update  
The Untold Secrets of Prof. Corinna Lain
Rebuttal of Lethal Injection "Expert", Corinna Lain  
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2025/06/rebuttal-of-lethal-injection-expert.html
c) edit update  
Rebuttal: Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection  https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2025/05/rebuttal-secrets-of-killing-state.html
d) Media, Prof. Lain & Dr. Zivot Disaster:  
Nitrogen Hypoxia & Scientific American  
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2022/09/media-disaster-death-penalty-scientific.html
e) Dr. Joel Zivot's Anti-Death Penalty Nonsense: A Compilation https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2025/05/dr-joel-zivot-anti-death-penalty.html
f) Rebuttal: Botched Executions  
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2017/01/rebuttal-botched-executions.html    
g) Lethal Injection & Nitrogen Hypoxia: Controversies Resolved   https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2024/01/lethal-injection-controversies-resolved.html    
h) Nitrogen Gas: More Anti-death Penalty Nonsense   
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2025/12/to-dr.html    
i)  No Pain in Lethal Injection
By Dudley Sharp,  Justice Matters, Dakota Voice, 8/24/2006  
 j) Veterinary Claims a Distortion of Reality: Human Lethal Injection  https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2011/12/veterinary-claims-distortion-of-reality.html  
2) This, below, will be helpful, if fact checking and vetting is of interest in future death penalty topics and rebuts some of the other, non execution methods, references from Lain's book, book tour and book reviews:            
        Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of everyone in a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.        
        The media/academic norm is to use anti-death penalty material, refuse to fact check or vet it and avoid all pro-death penalty research and experts, or act as if that is the case. How will you know that is true? Read on.   
a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents  https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-death-penalty-justice-saving-more.html  
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research  7 pro-death penalty experts included https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2022/01/students-death-penalty-research.html 
c) 600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families & 3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history   http://prodpquotes.info/  

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Partial CV 

Reply to W&M Phil Dept Chair Chris Tucker - Academic Disaster  
Dudley Sharp    
From: sharpjfa@aol.com  
To: Tucker, Chris  
Bcc: schroeder@wm.edu , publicpolicy@wm.edu , cdbyrn@wm.edu , ebakhtiari@wm.edu , jmdeming@wm.edu and 186 more...   
Fri, Apr 3 at 8:35 AM    

To: Sponsor: W&M Public Policy, Faculty, Affiliated Scholars & Board of Advisors   
All faculty and staff, Philosophy, Government, & Economics Depts & College of Law  
All Administrative Depts., College of Arts and Sciences  
The Schroeder Center    
Students throughout W&M  

RE: Reply to W&M Philosophy Dept. Chair Prof. Chris Tucker's Comments to  "Academic Disaster: Prof. Corinna Lain"  
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Dear Prof. Tucker:  

Thank you for your comments, below.  

If W&M's academic standards mean anything, they are universal, in every circumstance. It is clear that such is not the case, as 15 minutes of research, fact checking and vetting show, with Lain, as I have, thoroughly, provided all.  

We will see if  W&M cares. The U of Richmond, as I detailed, doubled down in support of the Lain disaster, their academic standard.  

Do you care? A department chair, philosophy, with a concentration in ethics? Your life's dedication. Of course you care, but will that matter? Likely not. Why?  

I consider this an internal struggle, within academic institutions, with fear keeping them from stopping it or they simply care not about the importance of ethics.   

One or both has been the standard for nearly a year, in this particular case. And for you?  

Keep in mind how often Lain brags about how thorough her documentation is. I don't think that Lain's research was poorly executed, as you stated. I find that it was, intentionally, poorly executed and that she has continued her book tour, knowing that she has been exposed, in detail, with no rebuttal from her, with no one in academia making any efforts to stop this disaster, the academic standard, in this case but . . . in how many others?  

Thank you again, Sincerely, Dudley Sharp  

On Friday, April 3, 2026 at 05:57:55 AM CDT, 
Tucker, Chris <cstucker@wm.edu> wrote:  

Dear Mr. Sharp,     

Thank you for your concern.  W&M is a place that values the scholarly discussion of ideas.  The institutions and departments hosting these events do not necessarily agree with all (or any) views of the speakers they invite.  If you feel strongly that Prof. Lain’s research was poorly executed, I would recommend publishing your ideas in a relevant peer-reviewed journal.  The venue of peer-reviewed journals is more likely to connect with the academic audience you are trying to reach.     

Sincerely, Chris

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Friday, January 23, 2026

Full Rebuttal: Lush's Anti-death Penalty Campaign

Full Rebuttal: Lush Cosmetics' Anti-death Penalty Campaign

To: All Departments at Lush

Re: Full Rebuttal:
"Lush Cosmetics urges Gov. Newsom to clear California’s death row, 
Carrie Harambasic, Head, Business Development, Lush North America,
Capital Weekly, 1/22/2026,
https://capitolweekly.net/lush-cosmetics-urges-gov-newsom-to-clear-californias-death-row/#comment-122345

From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, Houston, Texas, CV at bottom   

Preface

Lush's campaign is a standard anti-death penalty one, meaning they parrot anti-death penalty claims, refuse to fact check or vet those, nor use critical thinking, as I showed them (May 16, 2017) when they began their campaign, as again:

This rebuts all from the referenced, with all sources, with fact checking and vetting provided (just as May 16, 2017).

The death penalty/executions protect and save innocents, in six ways, better than does a life sentence,

Which, further, confirms this anti-death penalty norm:

Full Rebuttal of Sir Richard Branson & His Death Penalty Comments
aka 30 Examples: How Death Penalty Abolitionists Value Murderers 
More Than Their Innocent Victims:
No hyperbole. Fact by fact, step by step, factually proven.
71-83% Fraud Rate in Death Row "Innocent" Claims, 
Well Known Since 1998
White murderers are twice as likely to be executed as are black murderers 
RACE & THE DEATH PENALTY: A REBUTTAL TO THE RACISM CLAIMS
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/07/rebuttal-death-penalty-racism-claims.html

Rebuttal: Botched Executions

Gov. Newson lied, lied and lied


Moral Hypocrisy: European Union & The US Death Penalty


In Closing

Will Lush care that they are wrong, on everything? If the anti-death penalty norm, they will just double down.

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All other issues:

 Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of everyone in a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.
       The media/academic norm is to use anti-death penalty material, refuse to fact check or vet it or use critical thinking and avoid all pro-death penalty research and experts or to pretend that is the case.  How will you know that is true? Read on:
 a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)
and
c) 600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
http://prodpquotes.info/ 
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Sunday, January 18, 2026

Media Disaster: Elizabeth Bruenig & The Atlantic

Media Disaster: Elizabeth Bruenig & The Atlantic

To: All of those from the three articles, below

Re: Rebuttal and Correction Of Bruenig

From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, Houston, Texas, CV at bottom   

Preface

These are the norms of anti-death penalty media:

1) use, only, anti-death penalty sources and evade fact checking,  vetting, and critical thinking of those or pretend that is the case;
2) avoid pro-death penalty experts or pretend that is the case;
3) when the anti-death penalty media is corrected, with confirmable fact checking and vetting, they will not correct their errors;

all three of which violate media ethics, as is well known and which has been the standard for decades (1), within this debate.

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Media Disaster #1: Elizabth Bruenig & The Atlantic
Do Elizabeth Bruenig & The Atlantic Refuse to Fact Check and Think?
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2026/01/media-disaster-1-elizabth-bruenigthe.html

Media Disaster #2: Elizabeth Bruenig & The Atlantic"It's Just Wrong", Catholic (Bruenig's) Anti-Death Penalty Nonsense
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2025/07/catholic-anti-death-penalty-nonsense.html

Media Disaster #3 Elizabeth Bruenig & TheAtlamtic
Liz Bruenig's Anti-Death Penalty Disaster - Another U of Notre Dame Production
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2026/01/media-disaster-4-elizabeth-bruenig.html

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FN 

1) Research, w/sources, w/fact checking/vetting & critical thinking, as required of everyone in a public policy debate and which rebut all anti-death penalty claims.
       The media/academic norm is to use anti-death penalty material, refuse to fact check or vet it or use critical thinking and avoid all pro-death penalty research and experts or to pretend that is the case.  How will you know that is true? Read on:
 a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)
and
c) 600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
http://prodpquotes.info/ 
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