Race and Death Sentencing for Oklahoma Homicides Committed Between 1990 and 2012
Race and Death Sentencing for Oklahoma Homicides Committed Between 1990 and 2012 This Article examines 4,668 Oklahoma homicide cases with an identified suspect that occurred during a twenty-three year period…
Examining Jurors: Applying Conversation Analysis to Voir Dire in Capital Cases, a First Look
Examining Jurors: Applying Conversation Analysis to Voir Dire in Capital Cases, a First Look Scholarship about racial disparities in jury selection is extensive, but the data about how parties examine…
A Culture that is Hard to Defend: Extralegal Factors in Federal Death Penalty Cases
A Culture that is Hard to Defend: Extralegal Factors in Federal Death Penalty Cases Empirical research has exposed a troubling pattern of capital punishment in the United States, with extralegal…
The American Death Penalty Decline
The American Death Penalty Decline American death sentences have both declined and become concentrated in a small group of counties. In his dissenting opinion in Glossip v. Gross in 2014,…
Congress Blewett by Not Explicitly Making the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 Retroactive
Congress Blewett by Not Explicitly Making the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 Retroactive In 2013, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals was the first Circuit Court to retroactively apply the…
What Happens After the Right to Counsel Ends? Using Technology to Assist Petitioners in State Post-Conviction Petitions and Federal Habeas Review
What Happens After the Right to Counsel Ends? Using Technology to Assist Petitioners in State Post-Conviction Petitions and Federal Habeas Review Read the syndicated article here
A Right to Know How You’ll Die: A First Amendment Challenge to State Secrecy Statutes Regarding Lethal Injection Drugs
A Right to Know How You'll Die: A First Amendment Challenge to State Secrecy Statutes Regarding Lethal Injection Drugs In the years since 2008, when the Supreme Court upheld the…
A Means to an Element: The Supreme Court’s Modified Categorical Approach After Mathis v. United States
A Means to an Element: The Supreme Court's Modified Categorical Approach After Mathis v. United States Read the syndicated article here
Revisiting the Public Safety Exception to Miranda for Suspected Terrorists: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon
Revisiting the Public Safety Exception to Miranda for Suspected Terrorists: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon This Comment examines the application of the public safety exception…
Let Them Frye: Frye Hearings for Determination of “Mental Disorders” in the Sexually Violent Persons Act
Let Them Frye: Frye Hearings for Determination of "Mental Disorders" in the Sexually Violent Persons Act Specific laws aimed at the confinement of mentally disabled sexually violent persons have existed…
What Happens if Autopsy Reports are Found Testimonial?: The Next Steps to Ensure the Admissibility of These Critical Documents in Criminal Trials
What Happens if Autopsy Reports are Found Testimonial?: The Next Steps to Ensure the Admissibility of These Critical Documents in Criminal Trials The Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant the…
Organizational Conformity and Punishment: Federal Court Communities and Judge-Initiated Guidelines Departures
Organizational Conformity and Punishment: Federal Court Communities and Judge-Initiated Guidelines Departures The Sentencing Guidelines represent a uniform set of formal rules that are implemented across a broad range of diverse…