Victims and the Death Penalty: Inside and Outside the Courtroom

Symposium: Pamela Blume Leonard, Michael Mears, John H. Blume, Stephen P. Garvey, Samuel R. Gross, Richard Burr, et al.: ​“Victims and the Death Penalty: Inside and Outside the Courtroom,” 88 Cornell Law Review 257 (2003). This is a series of arti­cles in the Cornell Law Review stem­ming from a sym­po­sium focus­ing on the role that vic­tims play in cap­i­tal cas­es. The jour­nal pro­vides a close legal exam­i­na­tion of vic­tim impact state­ments and relat­ed research, expert analy­sis of state statutes, and an analy­sis of what role these state­ments should play in capital trials.