Book Annotations
Introduction
Annotations of:
FACING THE DEATH PENALTY: ESSAYS ON A CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. Edited by Michael L. Radelet. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989;
THE DEATH PENALTY: A WORLD-WIDE PERSPECTIVE: A REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CONTROL. By Roger Hood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989;
RACIAL VIOLENCE iN KENTUCKY, 1865-1940: LYNCHINGS, MOB RULE, AND “LEGAL LYNCHINGS.” By George C. Wright. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1990;
A PUNISHMENT IN SEARCH OF A CRIME: AMERICANS SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY. By Ian Gray and Moira Stanley for Amnesty International, U.S.A. New York: Avon Books, 1989; and
EQUAL JUSTICE AND THE DEATH PENALTY: A LEGAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS. By David C. Baldus, George G. Woodworth, and Charles A.Pulaski, Jr. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990.
Suggested Reading
Determinist Mitigation in Capital Cases
Avi Frey∞ I. Introduction II. Mitigation A. Supreme Court Law B. Defense Practice III. Free Will vs. Determinism IV. Determinist Mitigation: The Substance Focus the Investigation Assess—and Reassess—Investigative Progress Utilize the Science of the Brain Supplement Voir Dire Frontload Determinist
Data & the Death Penalty: Exploring the Question of National Consensus Against Executing Emerging Adults in Conversation with Andrew Michaels’s A Decent Proposal: Exempting Eighteen‑ to Twenty‑Year‑Olds From the Death Penalty
Brian Eschels I. National Consensus Through Practice II. Where Do Courts Look For National Sentencing Statistics? III. Possible Sources of Offender Age Data IV. Clark Prosecutor Data V. Trends in the Execution of Emerging Adults In A Decent Proposal: Exempting
Ambivalence in State Capital Punishment Policy: An Empirical Sounding
High number of those given death penalty not many executed, reflecting state uncertainty around death penalty; looking at data to support this conclusion.
A Decent Proposal: Exempting Eighteen- to Twenty-Year-Olds From the Death Penalty
Andrew Michaels∞ I. Introduction II. The Court’s Death Penalty And Categorical-Exemption Jurisprudence A. Atkins and Roper: The Court’s Articulation of the Two-Part Test for Categorical Exemption B. Graham: Finding a National Consensus Against a Punishment Based Solely on the Rarity of its Implementation III. Why