The Spring 2007 edition of the American Bar Association’s Human Rights quarterly features a series of articles by outstanding authors about the death penalty, including a 30-year retrospective on capital punishment in the U.S. The articles contained in the publication are:
A Thirty-Year Retrospective of the Death Penalty By Stephen F. Hanlon Monitoring Death Sentencing Decisions: The Challenges and Barriers to Equity By Glenn L. Pierce and Michael L. Radelet Mental Disability and Capital Punishment: A More Rational Approach to a Disturbing Subject By Ronald J. Tabak Will New Jersey Ban Capital Punishment? Understanding the Death Penalty Study Commission Report By Eddie Hicks ABA State Death Penalty Assessments: Facts (Un)Discovered, Progress (to Be) Made, and Lessons Learned By Deborah Fleischaker Raising the Bar in Capital Cases By Talbot D’Alemberte The Global Debate on the Death Penalty By Sandra Babcock Staying Executions: After Expanding the Death Penalty, the Pendulum Swings Back By Andrew Cohen A Journey to Abolition (about former Texas prosecutor Sam Milsap) By Virginia Sloan Human Rights Hero: Anthony G. Amsterdam By Ronald J. Tabak