Additional Resources

DPIC Resources

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

Archival DPIC Content

• Representation News and Development: 2003 – 2001
• Representation News and Development: 2004
• Representation News and Development: 2005
• Representation News and Developments: 2006

From the American Bar Association

• Guidelines on Representation (PDF)
• ABA Death Penalty Representation Project
• ABA’s Confidential Practice Area for Attorneys Handling Capital Cases
• Toledo Law Review, Spring 2004 (PDF): Highlighting the work of Pro Bono Civil Attorneys in Death Cases across the Country

Other Resources

• Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
• National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA)
• The Spangenberg Group — ​“Specialist in Access to Justice.”
• Reframing the Indigent Defense Crisis

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)