Law Reviews
Jul 16, 2014
A recent law review article by Professors Carol and Jordan Steiker describes how the Supreme Court’s attempt to closely regulate the death penalty has led instead to more unpredictability in its practice, especially with execution…
Law Reviews
Jun 19, 2014
Some defendants who commit murder are automatically excluded from the death penalty in the U.S., such as juveniles and the intellectually disabled. Others with similar deficits are regularly executed. A new study by Robert Smith (l.), Sophie Cull,…
Law Reviews
Apr 17, 2014
A new study published by Professors Jon Gould (l.) of American University and Richard Leo of the University of San Francisco, along with other researchers, examined factors that have contributed to wrongful convictions in criminal cases. The study…
Law Reviews
Apr 08, 2014
In Ford v. Wainwright (1986), the U.S. Supreme Court banned the execution of inmates who were insane. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Rehnquist and Chief Justice Burger warned that the majority decision “o…
Law Reviews
Mar 17, 2014
In a lecture at the Widener University School of Law, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas G. Saylor criticized the poor state of death penalty representation in Pennsylvania. He offered numerous cases in whi…
