Arbitrariness
,Race
,New Voices
,Oct 24, 2018
Following the Washington Supreme Court’s October 11, 2018 decision declaring the state’s death penalty unconstitutional, news outlets have questioned what comes next. Op-ed writ…
Sentencing Alternatives
,New Voices
,Apr 25, 2008
Rudolph J. Gerber served as a prosecutor and as a judge on Arizona’s Court of Appeals for 13 years. Earlier in his career, then-state senator Sandra Day O’Connor asked Mr. Gerber to draft the statute that eventua…
Jun 26, 2003
Although New York Law School Professor Robert Blecker and Columbia Law School Professor James Liebman frequently take opposing sides in public debates on the death penalty, the two men recently revealed their “common ground” through a co-authored …
May 12, 2004
Scientists who are skeptical of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s claim that DNA is “infallible” evidence in a death penalty case have voiced concern about the assumption, noting that there is no way to avoid all possible instances of human err…
Costs
,New Voices
,Aug 03, 2017
In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, released online in July, Ben Jones argues that, despite the popular conception of death-penalty abolition as a politically progressive cause, its future succ…
Innocence
,Race
,New Voices
,Apr 25, 2018
Three powerful new documentaries that explore the modern death penalty in the United States are set to premiere this April. Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis and Julius Tennon are executive producers of The Last Defense…
New Voices
,Nov 21, 2007
The journal of Criminology & Public Policy recently asked leading experts to recommend important policy changes needed in the area of criminal justice and to provide the evidence to support such change. Although most of the articles addressed vari…
United States Supreme Court
,New Voices
,Executions Overview
,Nov 14, 2007
In addition to the main brief submitted by the Petitioner in Baze v. Rees, several amicus curiae briefs have been filed in support of the inmates from Kentucky who are challenging the constitutionality of lethal injections as practiced in their st…
