As a student in Cornell Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, Gabriela (Gaby) Markolovic helped to represent Lisa Montgomery in her petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Gaby currently serves a legal fellow for the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and Justice 360. 

Posted Oct 08 2021

This World Day Against the Death Penalty, it is necessary to reflect on the role of trauma in cases like Lisa’s, and how it plays an outsized role in landing people like her on death row.