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.