Human Rights Magazine, a quar­ter­ly pub­li­ca­tion by the American Bar Association, focused its first-quar­ter 2017 edi­tion on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, mark­ing the 40th anniver­sary of Gregg v. Georgia. Articles by nation­al­ly-renowned death penal­ty experts exam­ine geo­graph­ic dis­par­i­ties in death sen­tences, secre­cy and lethal injec­tion, intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ty, men­tal ill­ness, and oth­er crit­i­cal ques­tions in the cur­rent dis­course around the death penal­ty. In the intro­duc­tion to the mag­a­zine, Seth Miller, exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Innocence Project of Florida and chair of the ABA Death Penalty Due Process Review Project, and Misty Thomas, staff direc­tor of the ABA Death Penalty Due Process Review Project, write, ​“Forty years after Gregg, attor­neys, schol­ars, and advo­cates con­tin­ue to debate whether our col­lec­tive con­cerns regard­ing the arbi­trary and dis­crim­i­na­to­ry appli­ca­tion of the death penal­ty have indeed been ade­quately addressed. The anniver­sary of this cru­cial deci­sion — which marks, in effect, the ​“birth” of the mod­ern death penal­ty — pro­vides an essen­tial oppor­tu­ni­ty for reflec­tion and con­sideration of this critical question.” 

(“The Death Penalty: How Far Have We Come?,” Human Rights Magazine, American Bar Association, Vol. 42, No. 2.) See Articles.

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