Additional Resources

DPIC Resources

Archival DPIC Content

• The Clustering of the Death Penalty
• Examples of Geographic Disparity

Podcasts

• Discussions with DPIC — Arbitrariness and the Constitution (2013)
• Discussions with DPIC — Authors of Death Penalty Study Discuss Tennessee “Death Penalty Lottery” (2018)

Related Books and Articles

• John Blume, Ghosts of Executions Past: A Case Study of Executions in South Carolina in the Pre-Furman Era, Cornell Law Review, Volume 7, No. 6, September 2022.
• Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker, Little Furmans Everywhere: State Court Intervention and the Decline of the American Death Penalty, Cornell Law Review, Volume 7, No. 6, September 2022.
• Arbitrary Death: A Prosecutor’s Perspective on the Death Penalty by Rick Unklesbay (2019)
• Stetler, Russell and McLaughlin, Maria and Cook, Dana, Mitigation Works: Empirical Evidence of Highly Aggravated Cases Where the Death Penalty Was Rejected at Sentencing, Hofstra Law Review, Forthcoming, (Dec. 24, 2021).
• Frank Baumgartner, Marty Davidson, Kaneesha Johnson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Colin Wilson, Deadly Justice—A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty (Oxford Univ. Press, 2017).
• Brandon Garret, End of Its Rope—How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice (Harvard Univ. Press 2017).
• J. Donohue, An Empirical Evaluation of the Connecticut Death Penalty System Since 1973: Are There Unlawful Racial, Gender, and Geographic Disparities?, 11 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (Dec. 2014).
• Frank R. Baumgartner, The Geography of the Death Penalty (Univ. of North Carolina, Oct. 17, 2010) - U.S. executions since 1976 by county
• John Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, and Martin T. Wells, Explaining Death Row’s Population and Racial Composition, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, 165-207, March 2004.
• Samuel R. Gross, Still Unfair, Still Arbitrary - But Do We Care?, Keynote Address, 26 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 517 (2000).
• Ben Steiner, Still Arbitrary: Capital Sentencing in the Post-Furman Era, 10 Crim. Just. Pol’y Rev. 85 (1999).
• Michael Burkhead & James Luginbuhl, Sources of Bias and Arbitrariness In The Capital Trial, 50 J. Soc. Issues 103 (1994).
• Vivian Berger, Black Box Decisions On Life Or Death - If They’re Arbitrary, Don’t Blame The Jury: A Reply To Judge Patrick Higginbotham, 41 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1067 (1991).
• Ronald J. Tabak, The Death of Fairness: The Arbitrary and Capricious Imposition of The Death Penalty In The 1980s, 14 Rev. of L. & Soc. Change 797 (1986).
• David Baldus, et al., Arbitrariness And Discrimination In The Administration Of The Death Penalty: A Challenge To State Supreme Courts, 15 Stetson L. Rev. 133 (1986).