The Tennessee Law Review recent­ly pub­lished a com­pi­la­tion of arti­cles and essays from its col­lo­qui­um, ​“The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty,” held in February 2009. Contributors focused on issues that have influ­enced cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment through­out the course of his­to­ry. An arti­cle by Hugo Adam Bedau, a promi­nent death penal­ty schol­ar, address­es the issues of inno­cence and racial bias in the appli­ca­tion of the death penal­ty. Lyn Entzeroth focus­es on whether men­tal­ly ill defen­dants should be exclud­ed from the death penal­ty, and asks whether states should be allowed to forcibly med­icate men­tal­ly ill defen­dants in order to make them com­pe­tent for exe­cu­tion. The col­lo­qui­um includ­ed a keynote address by Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights on rep­re­sen­ta­tion, and papers by Dwight Aarons, David Baldus, Julie Brain, Neil Weiner, George Woodworth, John Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Christopher Seeds, Bradley MacLean, Judge Gilbert Merritt, Penny White, and Pamela Wilkins.

(Colloquium, ​“The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty,” 76 Tennessee Law Review 505 (2009)). See also Law Reviews.

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