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. See Resources.


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