NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Maurice Chammah, staff writer for the Marshall Project and author of a new book, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty.
It's common knowledge that the FBI has a database of people's fingerprints. Many local police have their databases, too. And so, it turns out, does the United States military.
The students-recognizing that A) their professors were cowards, and B) this was an opportunity to make serious mischief-had a meeting that night and basically beat any dissenters into submission and presented a unanimous front the next morning that, yes, we definitely want this ... "lady" medical student [to study with us].
In the 1840s, Elizabeth Blackwell was admitted to a U.S. medical school - in part because the male students thought her application was part of an elaborate prank.