Law Reviews
Mar 09, 2017
In a new article for the Lewis & Clark Law Review, author Carla Edmondson argues that the future dangerousness inquiry that is implicit in capital setencing determinations “is a fundamentally flawed question that leads to arbitrary and capricious …
Law Reviews
Nov 08, 2016
Two recent studies examining the effects of Batson v. Kentucky found that, despite the Supreme Court’s ban on racial discrimination in jury selection, Black jurors continue to be disproportionately removed from jury pools in North and Sou…
Law Reviews
Sep 28, 2016
Some proponents of the death penalty — including the late Justice Antonin Scalia and the 2016 Republican Party platform — have asserted that the Supreme Court cannot declare the …
Law Reviews
Jul 22, 2015
In a recent article for the Georgetown Law Journal, Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for t…
Law Reviews
Apr 30, 2015
In an article for the University of Richmond Law Review, Stephen Bright (pictured), President and Senior Counsel at the Southern Center for Human Rights, describes the arbitrary factors that continue to influence the death penalty…
