Capital Defense Weekly

New scholarship

The good folks at U-T’s Tarlton Law Library note new germane published scholarship.  more after the jump

Robert Hardaway, (34 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 223 (2008))

Paul Marcus, Capital Punishment in the United States and Beyond (31 Melbourne University Law Review 837 (2007))

James R. Acker, Be Careful What You Ask For: Lessons from New York’s Recent Experience with Capital Punishment (32 Vermont Law Review 683 (2008))

Michael Mello, Certain Blood for Uncertain Reasons: A Love Letter to the Vermont Legislature on Not Reinstating Capital Punishment (32 Vermont Law Review 765 (2008))

Philip M. Meyer, Are the Characters in a Death Penalty Brief like the Characters in a Movie? (32 Vermont Law Review 877 (2008))

Justice Harry Lee Anstead, New Jersey Abolishes the Death Penalty – Is Legal Marriage Next? (48 Santa Clara Law Review 749 (2008))

Paula Shapiro, COMMENT, Are We Executing Mentally Incompetent Inmates Because They Volunteer to Die?: A Look at Various States’ Implementation of Standards of Competency to Waive Post-Conviction Review (57 Cath. U. L. Rev. 567 (2008))

Richard P. Mauro, The Chilling Effect that the Threat of Sanctions Can Have on Effective Representation in Capital Cases (36 Hofstra L. Rev. 417 (2007))

David F. Greenberg & Valerie West, Siting the Death Penalty Internationally (33 Law & Soc. Inquiry 295 (2008))

Lauren E. Perry, RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, Hiding Behind Precedent: Why Panetti v. Quarterman Will Create Confusion for Incompetent Death Row Inmates (86 N.C. L. Rev. 1068 (2008))

Benjamin T. Kurtz, NOTE, Supreme Court Upholds a Mandate of Death When the Jury Is in Equipoise: Challenged Under the Apprendi Interpretation of the Sixth Amendment (2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1071 (2008))

Melynda J. Price, Balancing Lives: Individual Accountability and the Death Penalty as Punishment for Genocide (Lessons from Rwanda) (21 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 563 (2007))

H. Mitchell Caldwell & Thomas W. Brewer, Death Without Due Consideration?: Overcoming Barriers to Mitigation Evidence by “Warming” Capital Jurors to the Accused (51 How. L.J. 193 (2008))

Stamos T. Karamouzis & Dee Wood Harper, An Artificial Intelligence System Suggests Arbitrariness of Death Penalty (16 Int’l. J.L. & Info. Tech. 1 (2008))

Christopher M. Johnson, The Death Penalty, Foreword: The Perpetual Controversy (6 Pierce L. Rev. 365 (2008))

Stephen B. Bright, The Death Penalty and the Society We Want (6 Pierce L. Rev. 369 (2008))

Kenneth C. Haas, The Emerging Death Penalty Jurisprudence of the Roberts Court (6 Pierce L. Rev. 387 (2008))

Dwight Aarons, The Abolitionist’s Dilemma: Establishing the Standards for the Evolving Standards of Decency (6 Pierce L. Rev. 441 (2008))

Sharon Turlington, Completely Unguided Discretion: Admitting Non-Statutory Aggravating and Non-Statutory Mitigating Evidence in Capital Sentencing Trials (6 Pierce L. Rev. 469 (2008))

Dr. Jur. Eric Engle, Death Is Unconstitutional: How Capital Punishment Became Illegal in America — A Future History (6 Pierce L. Rev. 485 (2008))

Alan Rogers, The Death Penalty and Reversible Error in Massachusetts (6 Pierce L. Rev. 515 (2008))

Sandra McGunigall-Smith & Robert Johnson, Escape from Death Row: A Study of “Tripping” as an Individual Adjustment Strategy Among Death Row Prisoners (6 Pierce L. Rev. 533 (2008))

Frederick C. Millett, NOTE, Will the United States Follow England (and the Rest of the World) in Abandoning Capital Punishment? (6 Pierce L. Rev. 547 (2008))

Michael Antonio Brockland, COMMENT, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: An Argument for a Jury Determination of the Enmund/Tison Culpability Factors in Capital Felony Murder Cases (27 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 235 (2007))

New SSRN works noted in the coming days.