LAW REVIEWS — Collection of Articles on the Death Penalty from Leading Scholars

The fol­low­ing law review arti­cles by sev­er­al key death penal­ty researchers were recent­ly pub­lished in 107 Cornell Law Review, No. 6, September, 2022. They cov­er a vari­ety of issues, such as the inter­play between race and cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, the his­to­ry of the death penal­ty, the fed­er­al death penal­ty, sen­tenc­ing trends, and the fed­er­al court’s role in capital punishment: 

Explaining the Invidious: How Race Influences Capital Punishment in America – Johnson, Sheri Lynn (pic­tured).

Getting to Death: Race and the Paths of Capital Cases After Furman – Fagan, Jeffrey; Davies, Garth; Paternoster, Raymond.

Ghosts of Executions Past: A Case Study of Executions in South Carolina in the Pre-Furman Era – Blume, John H.

Little Furmans Everywhere: State Court Intervention and the Decline of the American Death Penalty – Steiker, Carol S.; Steiker, Jordan M.

The Modern Federal Death Penalty: A Cruel and Unusual Penalty – Freedman, Hannah.

AEDPA Repeal – Garrett, Brandon L.; Phillips, Kaitlin.