Entries tagged with “American Bar Association”

Issues

Executions Overview

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Federal Death Penalty

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Aug 10, 2021

NEW RESOURCES: Capital Punishment and the State of Criminal Justice 2021

The American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section has released its annu­al report, The State of Criminal Justice 2021, exam­in­ing major issues, trends, and sig­nif­i­cant changes in America’s criminal justice…

Research

Aug 12, 2020

New Resources: Capital Punishment and the State of Criminal Justice 2020

The American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section has released The State of Criminal Justice 2020, its annu­al report on issues, trends, and sig­nif­i­cant changes in America’s crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. The ABA book includes a chap­ter on sig­nif­i­cant cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment devel­op­ments over the past year, authored by Ronald J. Tabak, chair of the Death Penalty Committee of the ABA’s Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice. Tabak’s analysis…

Issues

Religion

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Oct 17, 2018

ABA Panel Explores History, Morality of Death Penalty

“Has the death penal­ty evolved into an anachro­nism?” asked a pan­el at the August 2, 2018 American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Chicago. Moderator Ronald Tabak, chair of the ABA Death Penalty Committee, and pan­elists Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago; Karen Gottlieb, co-direc­tor of the Florida Center for Capital Representation; Meredith Martin Rountree, senior lec­tur­er at the…