Loving San Fran at the annual Law & Society conference, where I had great fun doing an “author meets readers” session around Secrets of the Killing State. Thanks to all who joined to celebrate and discuss this book! Bonus!  I ran the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge!

“For Corinna, the morality of lethal injection is not only about the drugs, the secrecy, or the people pushing the syringes. It is about whether the state can be trusted to decide that a person’s story is finished.” deadcuriousmag.co.uk/2026/05/29/i...

"Last year, just over 1 in 5 of the people we executed in this country were veterans—deeply damaged people who suffered from PTSD and other serious mental health conditions, almost invariably after serving their country in combat. And 2025 was no anomaly." open.substack.com/pub/corinnab...

This week, Tony Carruthers became the seventh person to survive his own execution by lethal injection. For my thoughts, check out open.substack.com/pub/corinnab...

I could not be more honored to share that Secrets of the Killing State was a finalist in the Next Gen Indie Book Awards, in the social justice category! @indiebookawards.bsky.social

Our local ABC affiliate here in Richmond was interested in DOJ’s adoption of the firing squad too. Here are my thoughts. www.wric.com/news/local-n...

I had such a great time on Canada’s AM 1150 that they invited me back to talk about my book! Thank you to all at the Early Hour for having me back! Here is Part 2. www.am1150.ca/podcast/the-...

Prof. @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social was interviewed live on @cnn.com to discuss the Justice Department's adoption of the firing squad as an execution method, and its relationship to lethal injection. "In part, it's a move of desperation...the state's violence will be explicit."

This morning I joined The Early Edition at Vista Radio (Canada) to talk about the latest US move to jumpstart executions. Thanks to the team at Vista—it was a pleasure! www.am1150.ca/podcast/the-...

This past Friday I was on @cnn.com to talk about DOJ‘s adoption of the firing squad as an execution method, and its relationship with lethal injection. Thanks @cnn.com for having me on! nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Attention Missouri friends! I’ll be in Jefferson City the end of this week, giving a talk in the beautiful Capitol Rotunda. Thank you to MADP for sponsoring this event! I hope to see you there!

Hi Columbia, SC, peeps! In the wake of Easter, I’ll be in Columbia, SC, talking about Faith, Redemption, and Death Row at Shandon UMC on April 26! I’m so excited to be in fellowship with this amazing congregation!

I am truly honored to be the keynote speaker for the program “Justice or Injustice? Moral & Legal Questions Around Capital Punishment” this afternoon at Georgia State University College of Law hosted by the Consulate General of Belgium 🇧🇪 & supported by @gfadp.bsky.social

I’m so excited to be on my way to Cali for @pacificmcgeorge.bsky.social 2026 symposium on “The Rule of Law Under Pressure” where I have the honor of being the morning’s featured speaker!

SECRETS OF THE KILLING STATE author @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social discusses the legal system on Brief Recess: A Legal Podcast with @michael-foote.bsky.social and Mélissa Malebranche.  Listen here: https://page1m.co/4seaWe9

As spring break winds down, here’s my late-breaking spring break wrap up.

I am so excited to announce that this Wednesday, I am doing an event at my alma mater @wm.edu and with my daughter Jessica Lain. It’s open to the public and I hope to see you all there!

Big Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024. Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and inviting them to the White House to discuss how they will divvy up control of the country's oil. Oligarchy in action.

Week 1. We invaded Venezuela. We killed the ACA subsidies. We destroyed the Kennedy Center. We murdered a woman in cold blood over deportations. We threatened Greenland, now we are offering them $100,000 per person to allow us to take over their country. First 7 days. Can we survive a year of this?

I want to be frank with you all: this is a *very* tough read. But it is fully factual, fully sourced, and full of necessary truths about where we are and what is about to happen in America.

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: "We have an ICE agent who should have been trained not to be in front of a vehicle and never to shoot into a moving vehicle, and yet this happened on [Kristi Noem's] watch. The whole POINT of Homeland Security is to make this country more stable and safe."

“Can we check her pulse?” “No! Back up! Now!” “I’m a physician.” “I don’t care.”

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

We have a central planned economy now Trump orders ‘my representatives’ to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to lower rates www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/b...

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

First, they lied about what we saw on video when ICE killed Renee Good. Now, they're politicizing the investigation by freezing out Minnesota authorities, so the full truth may never see the light of day. They are breaking our country. We must continue demanding accountability.

This entire regime consists of depraved sociopaths.

An ICE agent saying "I don't care" and preventing an innocent woman who's been shot from receiving medical care are not the words or actions of officers lawfully protecting themselves and the community. These are the words of sociopaths happy with murder.

ICE agents killing people in the streets. The naked extortion of a sovereign state. The National Guard unleashed in American cities. The Justice Department weaponized to prosecute political opponents. The tyranny is on full display — and it's waking America up.

Clarity, @aoc.bsky.social speaks with clarity

Representative Ted Lieu just drew a crystal clear red line: “If any military member, from the generals on down, participates in using force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.” www.reddit.com/r/UnderRepor...

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

House Oversight Democrats are demanding Oversight Republicans hold a hearing with Pam Bondi to examine the DOJ's "botched release" of the Epstein files. "Let's be clear: Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice are breaking the law every single day the Epstein files are kept from the public."

JUST IN: Reps. Massie and Khanna say "DOJ cannot be trusted" to release all of the Epstein files, urge a federal judge to appoint an independent overseer to make it happen. khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Attention book club afficionados! Several book clubs are reading Secrets of the Killing State this spring, and have online conversations that you could join.

Good thing it's just the flu and only killing thousands.....mostly the antivax crowd.. www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

Can you imagine a Republican in today’s age resigning for literally anything? No. Republicans have literally covered up other republicans dementia just to keep power. Kay Granger. Donald is no different.

Hard to be passionate about Democrat politicians even when you support their policies. When current democrats are so helpless they can only complain like the rest of us while horrible things happen and people are hurting. Republicans even when a minority are disruptive and effective. Need better.

Tim Walz: "I don't want to mince words here. Donald Trump and his allies in Washington and in St Paul and online want to make our state a colder, meaner place. They won't to poison our people against each other by attacking our neighbors."

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which helped fund NPR, PBS and many local radio and TV stations — is officially shutting down, months after Congress passed spending cuts that stripped the organization of more than $1 billion in funding.

James Talarico: “The biggest divide in this country is not left vs right, it’s top vs bottom — this new war is just the latest example of how billionaires run this country, run this economy, run this goverment, & now run our foreign policy”

France at the UN Security Council: "The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."

Donald Trump & Republicans let the ACA tax credits expire despite having bipartisan support to extend them. Now, premiums are skyrocketing for working families while billionaires cash in on new tax breaks. This is what happens when the President calls affordability a hoax.

Trump said today: "MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too." If your toddler spoke to you like this, you'd be concerned. Most powerful man in the world, ladies and gents. Still hard to believe, I know.

U.S. is unrecognizable these days, our loss… Across U.S. someone is missing. One year into Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West Virginia have lost doctors & nurses coming from overseas. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

“Trump’s invasion of Venezuela to capture its president cannot be squared with Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter, which bars member nations from deploying “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” Impeach Trump before he does it again

Christopher Strickland was charged with murdering his daughter based on a diagnosis of "Shaken Baby Syndrome." The charges were just dropped after forensic pathologists and a pediatric geneticist determined she died from disease & genetic factors: www.wdsu.com/article/new-...