Representation

Additional Resources

DPIC Resources

DPIC Report: “With Justice for Few: The Growing Crisis in Death Penalty Representation (1995)

Archival DPIC Content

From the American Bar Association

Other Resources

Law Review Articles on Representation

Acker, James R. and Lanier, Charles S.: “Ready for the Defense? Legislative Provisions Governing the Appointment of Counsel in Capital Cases”; 35 Criminal Law Bulletin 429 (1999)

American Bar Association, “Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases”; 31 Hofstra Law Review 903 (2003)

Anward, Shamena Bayer, Patrick Hijalmarsson, Randi: “Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences”; 4 American Economic Review: Insights 159-74 (2022)

Bright, Stephen B.: “Counsel for the poor: the death sentence not for the worst crime but for the worst lawyer”; 103 The Yale Law Journal 1835 (1994)

Bright, Stephen B.: “Death by lottery - procedural bar of constitutional claims in capital cases due to the inadequate representation of indigent defendants”; 92 West Virginia Law Review 679 (1990)

Bright, Stephen B. “Elected Judges and the Death Penalty in Texas: Why Full Habeas Corpus Review by Independent Federal Judges Is Indispensable to Protecting Constitutional Rights;” 73 Texas Law Review 1805 (2000))

Bright, Stephen B.: “In defense of life: Enforcing the Bill of Rights on behalf of poor, minority and disadvantaged persons facing the death penalty”; 57 Missouri Law Review 849 (1992)

Costanzo, Mark and Peterson, Julie: “Attorney persuasion in the capital penalty phase: a content analysis of closing arguments”; 50 Journal of Social Issues 125 (1994)

Cohen, Douglas M. and Lardent, Esther F.: “The last best hope: representing death row inmates”; 23 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 213 (1989)

Crocker, Phyllis L.: “Feminism and Defending Men on Death Row”; 29 St. Mary’s Law Journal 4 (1998).

Drinan,C.: “The Revitalization of Ake: A Capital Defendant’s Right to Expert Assistance,” 60 Oklahoma Law Review, Summer 2007, 2.

Geimer, William S.: “A decade of Strickland’s Tin Horn: doctrinal and practical undermining of the right to counsel”; 4 William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 91 (1995)

Howard Jr., Roscoe C.: “The defunding of the post conviction defense organizations as a denial of the right to counsel”; 98 West Virginia Law Review 864 (1996)

McConville, Celestine Richards: “The Meaninglessness of Delayed Appointments and Discretionary Grants of Capital Postconviction Counsel,” 42 Tulsa Law Review 253 (2006).

McConville, Celestine Richards: “The Right to Effective Assistance of Capital Postconviction Counsel: Constitutional Implications of Statutory Grants of Capital Counsel”; 2003 Wisconsin Law Review 31 (2003).

Mello, Michael: “Death and his lawyers: why Joseph Spaziano owes his life to the Miami Herald - and not to any defense lawyer or judge”; 20 Vermont Law Review 19 (1995)

Redick, W., MacLean, B., Truett, M.: ”Pretend Justice—Defense Representation in Tennessee Death Penalty Cases,” 38 University of Memphis Law Review 303 ( 2008)

STATE BAR OF TEXAS: GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS FOR TEXAS CAPITAL COUNSEL: STANDING COMMITTEE ON LEGAL SERVICES TO THE POOR IN CRIMINAL MATTERS ADOPTED BY THE STATE BAR BOARD OF DIRECTORS APRIL 21, 2006, 69 Tex. B. J. 966 (2006).

Tabak, Ronald J., ed.: “The death of fairness? Counsel competency and due process in death penalty cases”; Panel members: Stephen B. Bright, Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte, David R. Dow, Arthur “Cappy” Eads, Elaine R. Jones, Anthony Lewis, Hon. Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Sister Helen Prejean C.S.J., Clive A. Stafford Smith, Ronald J. Tabak, Michael E. Tigar; 31 Houston Law Review 1105 (1994)

R. Tabak, “The Private Bar’s Efforts to Secure Proper Representation for Those Facing Execution,”29 Justice System Journal 356 (2008)

Vick, Douglas W.: “Poorhouse justice: underfunded indigent defense services and arbitrary death sentences”; 43 Buffalo Law Review 329 (1995)

Weisberg, Robert: “Who defends capital defendants?”; 35 Santa Clara Law Review 535 (1995)