The March 2008 issue of the Pierce Law Review explores many aspects of the death penal­ty through arti­cles writ­ten by renowned death penal­ty schol­ars and attor­neys. With a for­ward by Christopher M. Johnson, the Review exam­ines the death penal­ty at indi­vid­ual, soci­etal, and inter­na­tion­al lev­els. To coin­cide with the pub­li­ca­tion of this issue, the Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire held a pan­el dis­cus­sion on the death penal­ty on April 15, 2008.

The arti­cles includ­ed in this spe­cial death penal­ty issue of the Pierce Law Review are:

  • THE DEATH PENALTY AND THE SOCIETY WE WANT by Stephen B. Bright
  • THE EMERGING DEATH PENALTY JURISPRUDENCE OF THE ROBERTS COURT by Kenneth C. Haas
  • THE ABOLITIONIST’S DILEMMA: ESTABLISHING THE STANDARDS FOR THE EVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY by Dwight Aarons
  • COMPLETELY UNGUIDED DISCRETION: ADMITTING NON-STATUTORY AGGRAVATING AND NON-STATUTORY MITIGATING EVIDENCE IN CAPITAL SENTENCING TRIALS by Sharon Turlington
  • DEATH IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL: HOW CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BECAME ILLEGAL IN AMERICA — A FUTURE HISTORY by Dr. Jur. Eric Engle
  • THE DEATH PENALTY AND REVERSIBLE ERROR IN MASSACHUSETTS by Alan Rogers
  • ESCAPE FROM DEATH ROW: A STUDY OF ​“TRIPPING” AS AN INDIVIDUAL ADJUSTMENT STRATEGY AMONG DEATH ROW PRISONERS by Sandra McGunigall-Smith & Robert Johnson
  • WILL THE UNITED STATES FOLLOW ENGLAND (AND THE REST OF THE WORLD) IN ABANDONING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT? by Frederick C. Millett.


(6 Pierce Law Review 365, March 2008). See Law Reviews.

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