Steven F. Messner, Eric P. Baumer, Richard Rosenfeld, DISTRUST OF GOVERNMENT, THE VIGILANTE TRADITION, AND SUPPORT FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, 40 Law & Soc'y Rev. 559 (2006).
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September 2006 posts
September 28, 2006
September 20, 2006
NEWS
The ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project has released its Florida Death Penalty Assessment Report. "The Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project was launched in September 2001 as the American Bar Association's "next step" in working to obtain a nationwide moratorium on executions."
According to an article in the Tallahassee Democrat, "Florida is the fourth state that the ABA has worked with in assessing capital punishment, and the recommendations here and elsewhere don't constitute ABA policy..." [See, Death Equity: Report casts new light on executions]
September 18, 2006
ARTICLES UPDATE
Stephen P. Klein, et al., Race and the Decision to Seek the Death Penalty in Federal Cases, NIJ-Sponsored (NCJ 214730) (2006).
Matthew B. Robinson and Kathleen M. Simon, Logical and Consistent? An Analysis of Supreme Court Opinions Regarding the Death Penalty, 3 Justice Policy Journal 1 (2006).
DECISIONS UPDATE
Comm. v. Wholaver (Pa. Aug 22, 2006) (NO. 458 CAP)
Comm. v. Edwards (Pa. Aug 21, 2006) (NO. 449 CAP)
Starling v. State (Del.Supr. Jul 24, 2006) (NO. 554, 2005, 556, 2005)
Reid v. State (Tenn. Jun 26, 2006) (NO. M2005-00260-SC-S09PC)
September 15, 2006
ARTICLES UPDATE
Stephen Blank, Notes and Comments, KILLING TIME: THE PROCESS OF WAIVING APPEAL THE MICHAEL ROSS DEATH PENALTY CASES, 14 J.L. & Pol'y 735 (2006).
September 14, 2006
NEWS
Robert Schwaneberg, NJ panel counts cost of death penalty, Newark Star-Ledger (Wednesday, September 13, 2006).
DECISIONS UPDATE
U.S. v. Agofsky (5th Cir.(Tex.) Jul 28, 2006) (NO. 04-41219)
Simpson v. Battaglia (7th Cir.(Ill.) Aug 11, 2006) (NO. 04-3044)
State v. Hampton (Ariz. Aug 15, 2006) (NO. CR-03-0033-AP)
State v. McGill (Ariz. Aug 14, 2006) (NO. CR-04-0405-AP)
State v. Ellison (Ariz. Aug 09, 2006) (NO. CR-04-0073-AP)
September 13, 2006
NEWS
The Death Penalty Information Center reports on the pace of executions: "There have been 41 executions in 2006 as of September 5. This is a pace comparable to last year's, when there were 60 executions. Eighty percent of the executions have been in the South, keeping with a pattern since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976...."
BOOKS
Joan Cheever, Back from the Dead: One Woman's Search for the Men Who Walked off America's Death Row, Wiley Publisher (Cheever Books, San Antonio, TX)(2006).
Harriet C. Frazier, Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803-2005: A History and Comprehensive Registry of Legal Executions, Pardons, and Commutations (McFarland & Co.)(2005).
DECISIONS UPDATE
People v. Stanley (Cal. Aug 24, 2006) (NO. S022224)
People v. Lewis (Cal. Aug 24, 2006) (NO. S033436)
People v. Ledesma (Cal. Aug 17, 2006) (NO. S014394)
Hovey v. Ayers (9th Cir.(Cal.) Aug 11, 2006) (NO. 03-99001)
Alberni v. McDaniel (9th Cir.(Nev.) Aug 09, 2006) (NO. 05-15570)
Williams v. Allen (11th Cir.(Ala.) Aug 02, 2006) (NO. 05-12691)
Amador v. Quarterman (5th Cir.(Tex.) Aug 01, 2006) (NO. 05-70026)
Jimenez v. Walker (2nd Cir.(N.Y.) Jul 31, 2006) (NO. 03-2980)
Rodgers v. State (Fla. Jun 29, 2006) (NO. SC01-185)
Archer v. State (Fla. Jun 29, 2006) (NO. SC04-451, SC05-696)
Reynolds v. State (Fla. May 18, 2006) (NO. SC03-1919)
Simmons v. State (Fla. May 11, 2006) (NO. SC04-19)
September 11, 2006
ARTICLES UPDATE
Craig M. Cooley, Mapping the monster's mental health and social history: why capital defense attorneys and public defender death penalty units require the services of mitigation specialists. 30 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 23-119 (2005) [Full-text available here].
Andrea D. Lyon and Mark D. Cunningham, "Reason not the need": does the lack of compelling state interest in maintaining a separate death row make it unlawful? 33 Am. J. Crim. L. 1-30 (2005).
September 05, 2006
BOOK REVIEWS
Sharon Cowan, Book Review, BEYOND THE WAR ON CRIME: PERSONHOOD, PUNISHMENT, AND THE STATE Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights. By Markus Dirk Dubber. New York and London, New York University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 412. $50 Cloth; $24 (Paper), 9 Buff. Crim. L. Rev 655 (2006).
David R. Dow, Book Review, RELIGION AND THE DEATH PENALTY: A CALL FOR RECKONING. EDITED BY ERIK C. OWENS, JOHN D. CARLSON AND ERIC P. ELSHTAIN. WILLIAM B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY 2004. PP. XXIII + 294 (INCLUDING INDEX). PAPER. $17.64. ISBN: 0-802- 82172-3. , 21 J.L. & Religion 213 (2005-2006).
Alec Foege, REPAYMENT OR REVENGE: WHY FORMS OF JUSTICE THAT EXTRACT LITERAL PUNISHMENTS STILL HOLD A STRONG APPEAL (Reviewing Eye for an Eye, William Ian Miller, Cambridge U. Press: ISBN-13: 9780521856805 | ISBN-10: 0521856809. 2005 | 278 pages | 228 x 152 mm ), 183 N.J.L.J. 1121 (March 27, 2006).
Heidi Frostestad Kuehl, Book Review, THE CULTURAL LIVES OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES. BY SARAT, AUSTIN; BOULANGER, CHRISTIAN, EDS. STANFORD, CALIF.: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. PP. XIV, 342. ISBN 0-80-475233-8. US$24.95 (PBK) / US$65.00 (CLOTH), 34 Int'l J. Legal Info. 179 (2006).
Jon M. Sands, Book Review, A LIFE AND DEATH DECISION: A JURY WEIGHS THE DEATH PENALTY BY SCOTT E. SUNDBY PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, NEW YORK, NY, 2005. 220 PAGES, $26.95, 53-JAN Fed. Law. 51 (2006).
September 01, 2006
DECISIONS UPDATE
Getsy v. Mitchell, No. 03-3200 (6th Cir.(Ohio) Aug. 02, 2006)
Prieto v. Quarterman, No. 05-70035 (5th Cir.(Tex.) Jul 18, 2006)
Coleman v. Quarterman, No. 05-70005 (5th Cir.(Tex.) Jul 18, 2006)
Garcia v. Quarterman, No. 03-11097 (5th Cir.(Tex.) Jul 13, 2006)
ARTICLES UPDATE
Symposium: Punishment Law and Policy 84 Tex. L. Rev. 1687 (June 2006)
Susan R. Klein & Jordan M. Steiker, FOREWORD, 84 Tex. L. Rev. 1687 (2006).
Marie Gottschalk, DISMANTLING THE CARCERAL STATE: THE FUTURE OF PENAL POLICY REFORM, 84 Tex. L. Rev. 1693 (2006).
Bernard E. Harcourt, FROM THE ASYLUM TO THE PRISON: RETHINKING THE INCARCERATION REVOLUTION, 84 Tex. L. Rev. 1751 (2006).
