NEW RESOURCE: Law Review Adresses “Who Deserves Death?”

Articles from a symposium entitled “Rethinking the Death Penalty: Can We Define Who Deserves Death?” can be found in the Fall 2003 edition of the Pace Law Review. The symposium, hosted by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in May 2002, featured speakers Robert Blecker, Jeffrey Kirchmeier, the Honorable William Erlbaum, David Von Drehle, and Jeffrey Fagan. The speakers addressed the question of whether it is possible to limit the death penalty to the “worst of the worst” and, if so, who would fall into this category. The panel further examined whether such a limited use of the death penalty would be supportable morally, philosophically, and constitutionally. (24 Pace Law Review 107 (2003)) See Resources.