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Focus on Gershowitz Scholarship

By Steve Hall

Diane Jennings notes Adam Gershowitz' latest scholarship in a post this morning at the Dallas Morning News Death Penalty blog, "Creation of statewide death penalty prosecution unit suggested."  An excerpt:Use of the death penalty in Texas has always been highly subjective, according to where the crime occurs. Dallas County has a history of using the ultimate punishment relatively sparingly while Harris County, until recently, earned a reputation for employing it frequently. Many counties never use it at all, not because prosecutors have misgivings about it, but sometimes because the county simply can't afford it.South Texas College of Law professor Adam Gershowitz has written an article "Statewide Capital Punishment: The Case for Eliminating Counties' Role in the Death Penalty " suggesting creation of a statewide death penalty unit to minimize the "geographic arbitrariness" of capital punishment while reducing costs...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 28, 2009 (boomark / email).