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Interview of John Hutchins: Habeas Challenges to the Death Penalty and the Experience of Representing Defendants on Death Row
48 minutes Posted Jul 2, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
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Send us Fan Mail When a person is sentenced to death, the case is not over. Some of the most critical legal work happens after the trial and direct appeals are finished. That’s where habeas attorneys step in, often years later, to uncover constitutional violations, investigate what was missed, and ask a fundamental question: did the system get it right? John Hutchins has spent years representing death row inmates in these high-stakes post-conviction proceedings. He’s also b...