(0.5 General California MCLE) After 30 years on death row, Henry McCollum was exonerated with the help of DNA evidence for the murder and rape of a young girl. With the stakes for wrongful conviction so high, can capital punishment be justified? Stanford Law Professor John Donohue scrutinizes the controversial practice and the particular biases that surround it.

John J. Donohue III is an economist, lawyer, and a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is well known for using empirical analysis to determine the impact of law and public policy in a wide range of areas, including civil rights and anti-discrimination law, employment discrimination, crime and criminal justice, and school funding. Previously, Professor Donohue was a member of the Stanford Law School faculty from 1995 to 2004 and then spent six years at Yale Law School as the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor.