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.
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