...Carol S. Steiker; Jordan M. Steiker The Supreme Court’s constitutional regulation of the American death penalty has yielded a plethora of doctrines that have shaped an alternative criminal justice process that is (mostly) limited to capital cases. Many of these doctrines offer a vision and practice...

... of the death penalty. Thus, future dangerousness as a determining factor during sentencing is a ground for challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty itself. In the interim, Anil Anthony is a better standard to apply, as compared to both Bachan Singh and Gurdev Singh , in principle as well...

...Michael Conklin This is a critical review of the book, Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty . Parts of the book addressed are public opinion polling, racial disparities, and death-qualified juries. Numerous examples are provided for how the book, while informative, provides...

...Chad Flanders Despite the continuing belief by a majority of Americans that the death penalty is morally permissible, the death penalty has few academic defenders. This lack of academic defenders is puzzling because of the strong philosophical justification the death penalty finds in traditional...

... through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintInfo.asp . 2012 death penalty prosecutorial discretion sentencing strict liability EX ANTE FAI RNESS IN CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE Vincent Chiao* In Furman v. Georgia, the United...