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"Court-Related Aspects of Capital Punishment "

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this special issue of the Justice System Journal,  which looks like a must-read.  Though not available free on-line, here are some of the intriguing titles of articles in this special issue that I am planning to track down: Give Him a Fair Trial, Then Hang Him: The Supreme Courts's Modern Death Penalty Jurisprudence Proportionality Review and the Death Penalty Why So Long?  Explaining Processing Time in Capital Appeals Plea Bargaining and the Death Penalty:  An Exploratory Study Starving the Death Penalty:  Do Financial Considerations Limit Its Use? Based on the titles and the authors, I am not expecting that all the articles in this special issue of the Justice System Journal will be presenting all the pro and con arguments on these and related capital topics...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 29, 2008 (boomark / email).