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Final version of my article on the SCOTUS death docket

By Douglas A. Berman

I am pleased to report that Ohio Northern University Law Review now has in print my recent article (from a lecture I gave at ONU) lamenting the Supreme Court's tendency to consider on the merits too many death penalty cases and too few other cases.  (These complaints should be familiar to regular readers, but this piece has more footnotes, data and ideas than my blog grumbling.)   The article is titled, "A Capital Waste of Time? Examining the Supreme Court's 'Culture of Death'," and can be downloaded below.  Here is part of the introduction:My interest in modern sentencing jurisprudence has led me to follow closely the Supreme Court?s certiorari process and choices, and I now believe that more attention (and criticism) should be directed toward the Justices? performance in their first job of deciding what to decide...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).