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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via Legal Theory Blog /Lawrence Solum, Craig Haney (University of California Santa Cruz) has posted Evolving Standards of Decency: Advancing the Nature and Logic of Capital Mitigation (Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article appears in the Hofstra Law Review symposium issue on the Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty cases. The complete text of the issue, which also contains the Guidelines themselves, is available online at www.law.hofstra.edu/DeathPenalty The article builds on converging lines of research in the social sciences that have constructed a framework which conceptualizes the roots of violent behavior as extending beyond the personality or character structure of those people who perform it, connecting it historically to the brutalizing experiences they have commonly shared as well as the immediately precipitating situations in which their violence transpires...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).