The most recent edition of the Amicus Journal, a London publication that provides a forum for dialogue on issues concerning capital punishment around the world, contains articles addressing U.S. death penalty concerns. Among the topics covered are clemency, mental retardation, conditions on death row, ineffective assistance of counsel, and lethal injection. The magazine features pieces by a number of U.S. death penalty experts, including an essay on clemency by Austin Sarat and a reprint of a speech by Stephen Bright. The magazine also contains articles about international death penalty developments, including focuses on Jamaica and India. (14 Amicus Journal (2005)).

See Resources, International Death Penalty, Clemency, Representation, Mental Retardation, and Methods of Execution.

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