NOTE: Since May 6, 2025, all versions of this have been sent to Corinna Barrett Lain and thousands of others, with Lain keeping it, all, from you, classic anti-death penalty FEMS (Fraud, Errors and Mis-directions), as her 7 years of research confirms.
Since 1982, with 43 years of research, judicial opinions have rejected everything in Lain's book, which is why the courts continue to approve lethal injection. Obvious.
If some of the material, in Lain's book, has not been presented to the courts, my guess is that it would be viewed as a fraud upon the court. Ask her.
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Subject: Rebuttal of Lethal Injection "Expert", Corinna Lain
Re: Rebuttal of
Prof. Corinna Lain, expert on lethal injection to speak in Oak Ridge,
1 to 2:30 on June 2 at Oak Ridge Public Library
To: Sent to all other states, in the same fashion, as per the book tour. So far, Oklahoma and South Carolina, as well.
Tennessee Voices for Victims
Governor Bill Lee and staff
Lt. Governor Randy McNally and staff
Tennessee House, Senate & their Staffs
Research Division Staff (Tn House), Research Staff (Tn Senate)
Tn House Criminal Justice Committee & Subcommittee and all Staff members
Tn Senate Judiciary Committee Members and all staff
Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Staff
Dept. of Corrections (Victim Services & others)
many more at bottom
bcc: Professor Corinna Barrett Lain, U of Richmond Law School
New York U Press & Michigan Law Review
Media throughout the world
All Professors, Students & Law Librarians, U of Richmond Law School, U of Nebraska Law School & St. Mary's University School of Law
Henrico County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office, University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy), University of Cologne Institute for Comparative Criminal Law
more at bottom
PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL OF THOSE ON DEATH ROW
Subject: The Untold Secrets of Prof. Corinna Lain
Her Book: Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection, by Corinna Barrett Lain, NYU Press, 2025
From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, (pro) death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom
What you will see, with Lain, is the classic anti-death penalty norm, FEMS (Fraud, Errors and/or Mis-directions), . . . and we start with a doozy (1).
1) The Untold Secrets of Prof. Corinna Lain
Sent to Lain, et al, May 25, 2025
2) Rebuttal: Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection
Sent to Lain, et al, May 5, 2025
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In addition, added June 6th
To: All Editors, producers, authors and (no) fact checkers/vetters, Richmond Law Magazine
Re: The Heart Stops Reluctantly, Kim Catley, Richmond Law Magazine, April 18, 2025, p 24-28,
Subject: Complete Rebuttal of the referenced
From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, CV at bottom
These rebut all of the points that Prof. Lain made within the referenced article.
If the editors, producers, authors, researchers, et al, at Richmond Law Magazine act in the normal fashion, they will care, very much, to keep that from their readers, which violates journalism ethics and, I should hope, those of academia and law schools, as well.
I hope that I am wrong about those at Richmond Law Magazine. Am I?
Rebuttal of Lethal Injection "Expert", Corinna Lain
The Untold Secrets of Prof. Corinna Lain
Rebuttal: Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection
In Closing
If those at Richmond Law Magazine, Prof. Lain or any others, do not believe that I have rebutted all Lain's points, please advise me and I will address the issue.
As I wrote to Prof. Lain, on May 9th:
"Instead of obvious threats, let's try a more productive approach. You have had all this time and all this space to tell me anything I have said, which is false and . . . nothing."
As of June 14th, nothing.
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Victim Services
Victims' Voices
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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. How will you know that is true? You haven't seen this material, prior.
a) The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents
and
b) Students, Academics & Journalists: Death Penalty Research
(7 pro-death penalty experts are included)
600+ pro death penalty quotes from murder victim's families &
3300+ from some of the greatest thinkers in history
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Partial CV
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bcc: Many more
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Talking with Donato. C-SPAN, All Good Books (Columbia, South Carolina), South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, French Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Longreads, Charlotte E. Rosen (historian, writer, and editor), All at Richmond Law Magazine. Prof. Lawrence B. Solum (research specialist, U of Virginia Law School & Legal Theory Blog), The Baffler, All Good Books (Columbia, South Carolina), Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael, Patty Roberts (Dean, St. Mary's University School of Law and All Students, Staff and Professors at the law school and the Criminal Justice and Criminology Dept., St. Mary's U, & Host, Aspen Leading Edge Podcast), Libraries in Oklahoma and Tennessee, All at Good Faith Media/Good Faith Weekly, Many throughout Oak Ridge, Tn (Public Library, Govt, Media, others), Carolyn Dipboye (President, League of Women Voters/Oak Ridge, TN), Ronald J. Bacigal (Reporter for the Virginia Court of Appeals), Maria Jankowski (Executive Director, Virginia Indigent Defense Commission), Law Professor Omavi Shukur, Law Professor Nicholas Kahn-Fogel, all federal district court clerks in Ohio (for Magistrate Judge Michael Merz), National Books Critics Circle (Board Members), Corinna Lain's Substack page, All of those at Legal Talk Network, Library Journal, National Association for Public Defense, History News Network, Making Worlds Books, U of Richmond Alumni Office, Lewis F. Powell Jr. American Inn of Court, GOODREADS, JSTOR, Turn The Page Bookshop, Washington Independent Review of Books, Legal Theory Blog, The Arts Fuse, NewsBreak, Fulton Street Books & Coffee, Linkedin, The Texas Observer, Texas Public Radio, Houston Public Radio, Laura Di Giovine on X, PageBound, THREADS, , KGOU (NPR Oklahoma), Above The Law, CRIMEREADS, KOSU (NPR), WYPR (NPR), Possible Futures Books (New Haven), Faithful Politics Podcast, Baltimore Republic Media, Page One Media, NetGalley, Many at ABA (American Bar Assn.), ABA Journal, Mississippi Public Broadcasting (NPR), Brooklyn Public Library, New Orleans Public Radio (NPR), Dorf on Law, Project MUSE, Style Weekly, City Lights, Bookanon, Bunk History, Seminary Co-Op, HighBridge, Waterstones, Red Emma's, Politics & Prose Bookstore, William Engels (History of Philosophy Podcast), SoundCloud, more as found
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Sent to all other states, in the same fashion, as per the book tour
Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference
The Tennessee Sheriffs’ Association
Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police
Jasmine Woodson. Director & all staff, Tennessee Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (TCCADP).
All staff, editors and reporters The Tennessean. The Commercial Appeal, USA Today, etc.
All leadership at New Media Investment Group, Gannett Co. and Gannett Media Corp.,
Reverend Stacy Rector, executive director, and staff, board & advisory board Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP).
National and Tennessee NAACP
media throughout Tennessee, incl abc24, Knox news, wpln, many others
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