Studies
Feb 24, 2020
Report: Failure to Implement Reforms Undermines Legitimacy of Kentucky’s Death-Penalty System
Nine years after an American Bar Association (ABA) study identified systemic…
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Studies
Feb 24, 2020
Nine years after an American Bar Association (ABA) study identified systemic…
Articles
Feb 04, 2020
As the death penalty continues to wilt across the country, whatever penological justification it once purportedly served is dying as well, say capital punishment scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker (pictured…
Studies
Jan 02, 2020
Families who have a loved one on death row, or who have experienced the execution of a loved one, suffer a variety of adverse mental health effects, including depression, anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), according to a new repor…
Law Reviews
Dec 30, 2019
At least 99 men and one woman are on death row in eight U.S. states, condemned to death by judges without the prior authorization of a jury, according to a 2019 study by researchers Michael Radelet and Ben Cohen (…
Law Reviews
Nov 12, 2019
At least 166 wrongfully convicted death-row prisoners have been exonerated since the death penalty was reinstituted in the United States in 1973. That number, however, may only scr…