iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Jody Lyneé Madeira
GET UPDATES FROM Jody Lyneé Madeira
 
Dr. Jody Lyneé Madeira is an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana and author of the forthcoming book Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure (NYU Press, 2012).

Blog Entries by Jody Lyneé Madeira

Why Attention Must Not Be Paid: The Consequences of Obsessive Media Coverage of Criminal Suspects

(6) Comments | Posted August 8, 2012 | 1:22 PM

Since the shootings in Aurora, Colo., news coverage has hovered around James E. Holmes, who allegedly killed 12 individuals and injured 58 others when he opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora. The extent of this media coverage, the sheer prominence of Holmes' image, has garnered significant criticism. When...

Read Post

McVeigh's Execution, 11 Years Later

(10) Comments | Posted June 12, 2012 | 7:14 PM

June 11, 2001 -- The day that an unprecedented 242 individuals watched Timothy McVeigh die by lethal injection. Ten viewed the execution live in Terre Haute, Indiana, and 232 viewed by remote closed-circuit broadcast in Oklahoma City.

That year, I was a graduate student, hungry for that engrossing yet...

Read Post

No Medium, No Message, No Closure?

(2) Comments | Posted May 1, 2012 | 5:51 PM

We now have the latest "final word" on whether photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse will ever be released to the public: a resounding no. So ruled U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense, et al., upholding the CIA's decision to withhold...

Read Post