Law Reviews
Aug 21, 2012
A recent article in the Brooklyn Law Review argues that executing long-serving, elderly death row inmates should be deemed unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment. In A Modest Proposal: The Aged of Death Row Should Be Deemed …
Law Reviews
Jul 20, 2012
A recent law review article by Professors Carol and Jordan Steiker examines two decades of attempts to regulate capital punishment and concludes that this process may have paved the way to a finding that the death penalty is unconstitutional: “[T]…
Law Reviews
Jul 09, 2012
A recent article in the Michigan State Law Review examined the problem of racial bias in capital cases, particularly with respect to jurors’ decision making. Authors Mona Lynch and Craig Haney (pictured), both professors at the University…
Law Reviews
May 15, 2012
In one of the most comprehensive investigations ever undertaken about the execution of a possibly innocent defendant, Professor James Liebman and other researchers at Columbia University Law School have published a groundbreaking report on the cas…
Law Reviews
May 04, 2012
Recently published historical research led by Professor Austin Sarat (pictured) of Amherst College examines the way gruesome executions were reported in the media in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Prof. Sarat’s study found that newspapers…
