Law Reviews
Apr 02, 2018
Multiple factors — from declining murder rates to the abandonment of capital punishment by many rural counties and substantially reduced usage in outlier counties that had aggressively imposed it in the past — have collectively led to an “astonishing …
Law Reviews
Oct 30, 2017
A new study of more than two decades of murders in Oklahoma has found that defendants charged with killing a white woman have odds of being sentenced to death in the Sooner State that are nearly ten times greater than if they had …
Law Reviews
Sep 18, 2017
Two professors of sociology and criminology who reviewed more than 1500 cases in which convicted prisoners were later exonerated have found a direct relationship between the seriousness of the crime and miscarriages of justice: “the ‘worst of the …
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…
