Entries tagged with “Carol S. Steiker”
Facts & Research
History of the Death Penalty
,United States Supreme Court
,Nov 01, 2016
BOOKS: “Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment”
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment by Harvard Law Professor Carol S. Steiker and University of Texas Law Professor Jordan M. Steiker examines the U.S. Supreme Court’s “extensive — and ultimately failed — effort to reform and rationalize the practice of capital punishment in the United States through top-down, constitutional regulation.” The authors argue that significant constitutional flaws persist in the death penalty system despite the Court’s…
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Apr 14, 2023
LAW REVIEWS — Collection of Articles on the Death Penalty from Leading Scholars
The following law review articles by several key death penalty researchers were recently published in 107 Cornell Law Review, No. 6, September, 2022. They cover a variety of issues, such as the interplay between race and capital punishment, the history of the death penalty, the federal death penalty, sentencing trends, and the federal court’s role in capital…
Policy Issues
Race
,History of the Death Penalty
,Feb 04, 2020
New Scholarship: Born in the Legacy of Discrimination, What Comes After Capital Punishment Goes?
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). In their new article The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States in the January 2020 Annual Review of Criminology, the Steikers examine four central issues in the rise and fall of the death penalty in…
Facts & Research
United States Supreme Court
,Apr 24, 2024
Supreme Court Roundup: Justices Hear Oral Arguments on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Cruel and Unusual Punishment; Defend Positions on Stays
On April 17, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Thornell v. Jones, a case implicating the test for ineffective assistance of counsel — and the first and only oral argument in a death penalty case scheduled this term. Arizona appealed the Ninth Circuit’s decision vacating the death sentence of Danny Lee Jones, which found that Mr. Jones was prejudiced by his attorney’s failure to present key mitigating evidence as to Mr. Jones’ brain damage, childhood physical and sexual abuse, and…
Facts & Research
United States Supreme Court
,Mar 22, 2024
Women’s History Month Profile Series: Carol Steiker, Harvard Law School Professor
This month, DPIC celebrates Women’s History Month with weekly profiles of notable women whose work has been significant in the modern death penalty era. The third entry in this series is Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker, a renowned educator and influential death penalty…