Death Penalty Rare as Hens’ Teeth: The New Geography of the American Death Penalty by Brandon L. Garrett Today, only a few dozen scattered counties actually impose death sentences, supporting the death penalty’s arbitrariness.
Death Penalty Through the Glass Darkly: What Oklahoma’s Lethal Injection Regime Tells Us about Secrecy, Incompetence, Disregard, and Experimentation Nationwide by Megan McCracken, Jennifer Moreno Rather than acting with due diligence and complete transparency to ensure effective and constitutional execution procedures, states are experimenting with drug protocols based on availability and passing secrecy laws to avoid scrutiny.
Death Penalty Intellectual Disability, Innocence, Race, and the Future of the American Death Penalty by John H. Blume A review of cases since the U.S. Supreme Court held that per-sons with intellectual disability could not be sentenced to death or executed reveals deeper structural problems with the death penalty as a whole.
Death Penalty The Racial Origins of the Supreme Court’s Death Penalty Oversight by Carol S. Steiker, Jordan M. Steiker In an excerpt from their book, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, the authors describe how the South’s practice of capital punishment provided the driving force for the Court’s constitutional intervention.
Death Penalty Have Mercy: New Opportunities for Commutations in Death Penalty Cases by Laura Schaefer, Michael L. Radelet Although support for the death penalty is in decline, capital commutations are not on the rise. Weak arguments include a perceived political risk, but perhaps a misunderstanding of the significance, role, and rationale of clemency is to blame.
Death Penalty Have Mercy: New Opportunities for Commutations in Death Penalty Cases by Laura Schaefer, Michael L. Radelet Although support for the death penalty is in decline, capital commutations are not on the rise. Weak arguments include a perceived political risk, but perhaps a misunderstanding of the significance, role, and rationale of clemency is to blame.
Death Penalty Mental Illness, Diminished Responsibility, and the Death Penalty: A New Frontier by Richard J. Bonnie Ten years ago, the ABA and other organizations endorsed the principle that a finding of serious mental illness should preclude the death penalty, a policy now under consideration by several states’ legislatures.
Litigation & Trials Confronting Implicit Bias: An Imperative for Judges in Capital Prosecutions by Gregory S. Parks, Hon. Andre M. Davis Critical to ensuring fairness when imposing the most severe punishment, judges must recognize implicit bias in themselves and others within the criminal justice system.
Death Penalty Public Safety Officials on the Death Penalty by Gerald Galloway PSODP aims to confront concerns about the death penalty and explore alternative ways to achieve a more just public safety system.
Death Penalty Human Rights Hero: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf by Virginia E. Sloan Governor Tom Wolf, along with five of his peers, has recognized the widespread problems with the death penalty, standing up for fairness, justice, and accuracy by suspending executions in his state.
