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This collection features legal, personal, and family social history documents relating to the life, career, capital murder conviction and death sentence of Doyle Lee Hamm, who was the subject of an attempted execution by lethal injection by the State of Alabama on February 22, 2018. The social history materials collected during the mitigation investigation of Mr. Hamm's capital murder case date back to the Depression Era. Hamm died of complications from lymphatic cancer on November 28, 2021, in the William C. Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore, in southern Alabama. He was 64.
Series II: Family Photographs, Letters, and Personal Items
(All obtained during the mitigation investigation of Doyle Lee Hamm's Alabama death penalty case)
Series III: Hamm Family Mitigation Records
(Containing documents, records, recordings conducted during the mitigation investigation of Doyle Lee Hamm's Alabama death penalty case)
Series IV: Doyle Lee Hamm Personal Records
(Birth to 1988, including some trial materials from his Alabama death penalty case)
Series V: Doyle Lee Hamm Rule 32 Litigation
(For state post-conviction relief in Alabama from sentence of death, 1991-2005)
Series VI: Doyle Lee Hamm Tennessee State Post-Conviction Habeas Litigation, 1992-1999
Series VIII: Doyle Lee Hamm Mitigation Files
(Gaye Nease's copies of full social history files on Doyle Lee Hamm)
Series IX: Trial Counsel Hugh Harris's Documents
(Box of Documents (1 complete and entire box of all of his trial materials produced to Bernard E. Harcourt during Rule 32 state post-conviction proceedings in 1991)
Series X: Doyle Lee Hamm Federal Habeas Corpus Litigation in Middle District of Alabama, 2006-2016
(Beginning at some point during this federal habeas corpus litigation, pleadings on the docket sheet start to be become available electronically on PACER)
Series XII: Doyle Lee Hamm Lethal Injection Litigation
(In Federal Court in Northern District of Alabama (2017-2018) in case: Hamm v. Dunn 17-CV-02083-KOB)
(All of the pleadings in this federal litigation should be available on PACER now)
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Bernard E. Harcourt collection on Doyle Lee Hamm, 1919-2023; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Professor Harcourt is is a distinguished contemporary critical theorist, justice advocate, and prolific writer and editor. In his books, articles, and teaching, his scholarship focuses on social and critical theory with a particular interest in punishment and surveillance. Harcourt is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and executive director of Columbia University's Eric H. Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights. Harcourt is the author or editor of more than a dozen books. Critique & Praxis (2020) charts a vision for political action and social transformation; The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (2018) examines how techniques of counterinsurgency warfare spread to U.S. domestic policing and policy; and Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (2015) interrogates the crisis of democracy under mass surveillance regimes of "expository" power. Harcourt served as a law clerk for Judge Charles S. Haight Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and began his legal career representing death row inmates, working with Bryan Stevenson at what is now the Equal Justice Initiative, in Montgomery, Alabama. He continues to represent pro bono inmates sentenced to death and life imprisonment without parole.
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