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Interesting coverage of ALI's notable death penalty move last year

By Douglas A. Berman

Adam Liptak's Sidebar column in the New York Times this week effectively covers notable ALI news from a few months ago (which I first reported here). The piece is headlined "Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work in Frustration," and here are excerpts: Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it. There were other important death penalty developments last year: the number of death sentences continued to fall, Ohio switched to a single chemical for lethal injections and New Mexico repealed its death penalty entirely.  But not one of them was as significant as the institute?s move, which represents a tectonic shift in legal theory...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).