On a Friday afternoon in February 2010, the life of Maria Ragland Davis, a 50-year-old female associate professor of biology, was cut short in an act of sudden and shocking violence. An accomplished academic specializing in plant genetics, she was attending a routine biology department faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the institution where she had worked since 2002. The meeting took a horrific turn when a fellow professor, Amy Bishop, who had been denied tenure, pulled
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