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title: "NEW RESOURCES: ABA's Human Rights Journal Highlights Death Penalty Issues"
description: 'The Spring 2007 edition of the American Bar Association’s Human Rights quarterly features a series of articles by outstanding authors about the death…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-abas-human-rights-journal-highlights-death-penalty-issues'
section: news
date: '2007-10-25T17:39:52-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:24:53-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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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

(Human Rights, American Bar Association, Spring 2007). [Read the publication online](http://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home.html). See [Resources](/getcat.php?cid=5).