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Current Capital Punishment Legal Literature

About the “Current Capital Punishment Legal Literature” website: The "Current Capital Punishment Legal Literature" website is a resource for keeping informed about current articles related to capital punishment law. The Law Library staff selects capital punishment articles daily from the U.S. legal journals and non-U.S. legal journals published in English. We then input into this database the basic bibliographic informationand an image of the first page of each article. The image of the article's first page will provide readers with a more complete idea of the scope of each article and the biographical background of the authors. Articles will be added two to three times a week, depending on the volume of cites. This page is RSS-enabled. Subscribe to the RSS feed using a feed reader, or RSS-enabled browser (Firefox, Safari, or IE 7) to receive automatic notices of updates. The RSS feed address is http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/punishment/rss.cfm. The Library provides this service under the “fair use” provision of U.S. copyright law. Only the first page of an article will be scanned, and images will be deleted after 60 days. This service is for non-commercial, educational purposes only. If you have any questions or comments about this service please contact David McClure , Tarlton fellow.

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Articles are listed in reverse chronological order:

May 4, 2008

Author: Rita K. Lomio Title: Working Against the Past: The Function of American History of Race Relations and Capital Punishment in Supreme Court Opinions Citation: 9 J.L. Soc'y 163 (2008)

May 2, 2008

Author: William P. Redick, Jr., Bradley A. MacLean & M. Shane Truett Title: Pretend Justice -- Defense Representation in Tennessee Death Penalty Cases Citation: 38 U. Mem. L. Rev. 303 (2008)

April 30, 2008

Author: Thomas H. Peyton Title: CASENOTE, State v. Kennedy: Death Penalty for Non-Homicidal Aggravated Rape of a Child Citation: 9 Loy. J. Pub. Int. L. 87 (2007)

April 8, 2008

Author: Lewis L. Laska Title: Fact-Based Death Penalty Research Citation: 4 Tenn. J.L. & Pol'y 103 (2007)

April 1, 2008

Author: Talia Nye-Keif Title: COMMENT, "Capital" Punishment or "Lack-Of-Capital" Punishment? Indigent Death Penalty Defendants are Penalized by a Procedurally Flawed Counsel Appointment Process Citation: 10 Scholar 211 (2008) Author: Richard Klein Title: An Analysis of Death Penalty Decisions from the October 2006 Supreme Court Term Citation: 23 Touro L. Rev. 793 (2008)

March 26, 2008

Author: Anthony G. Amsterdam Title: Symposium on Pursuing Racial Fairness in Criminal Justice: Twenty Years after McCleskey v. Kemp, OPENING REMARKS: Race and the Death Penalty Before and After McCleskey Citation: 39 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 34 (2007) Author: Matthew E. Feinberg Title: COMMENT, The Crime, The Case, The Killer Cocktail: Why Maryland's Capital Punishment Procedure Constitutes Cruel and Unusual Punishment Citation: 37 U. Balt. L. Rev. 79 (2007)

March 19, 2008

Author: Andrew Chrestman Title: CASENOTE, A Time to Kill? The Louisiana Supreme Court's Decision in State v. Kennedy on the Constitutionality of the Death Penalty for Child Rape Citation: 53 Loy. L. Rev. 559 (2007) Author: Harry Greenlee, Shelia P. Greenlee Title: Women and the Death Penalty: Racial Disparities and Differences Citation: 14 Wm. and Mary J. Women and L. 319 (2008) Author: Carrie L. Flores Title: COMMENT, The "Tie" Goes to the State in Kansas v. Marsh: A Small Victory for Proponents of the Death Penalty Citation: 42 Val. U. L. Rev. 675 (2008)

February 27, 2008

Author: Lupe S. Salinas Title: Is it Time to Kill the Death Penalty?: A View from the Bench and the Bar Citation: 34 Am. J. Crim. L. 39 (2006)

February 12, 2008

Author: Kate McMahon Title: Dead Man Waiting: Death Row Delays, the Eighth Amendment, and What Courts and Legislatures Can Do Citation: 25 Buff. Pub. Int. L.J. 43 (2006-2007)

January 29, 2008

Author: John P. Fox Title: NOTE, The Common-Law Rule of Consistency in Modern Capital Sentencing Citation: 93 Iowa L. Rev. 247 (2007)

January 16, 2008

Author: Nathan K. Bays Title: COMMENT, A Rush to Punishment: The Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds the Death Penalty for Child Rape in State v. Kennedy Citation: 82 Tul. L. Rev. 339 (2007)

January 9, 2008

Author: Peggy Sasso Title: Implementing the Death Penalty: The Moral Implications of Recent Advances in Neuropsychology Citation: 29 Cardozo L. Rev. 765 (2007)

December 12, 2007

Author: Phyllis Goldfarb Title: Pedagogy of the Suppressed: A Class on Race and the Death Penalty Citation: 31 N.Y.U. Rev. L. and Soc. Change 547 (2007) Author: Evan J. Mandery Title: COMMENTARY, Executing the Insane, Retribution, and Temporal Justice Citation: 43 Crim. L. Bull. 981 (2007)

November 28, 2007

Author: Lyn Entzeroth Title: SYMPOSIUM FOREWORD, Symposium: The Death Penalty and the Question of Actual Innocence Citation: 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 205 (2006) Author: Randall Coyne Title: Dead Wrong in Oklahoma Citation: 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 209 (2006) Author: Kenneth Williams Title: Why It Is So Difficult to Prove Innocence in Capital Cases Citation: 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 241 (2006) Author: Celestine Richards McConville Title: The Meaninglessness of Delayed Appointments and Discretionary Grants of Capital Postconviction Counsel Citation: 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 253 (2006) Author: David R. Dow, Jared Tyler, Frances Bourliot and Jennifer Jeans Title: Is It Constitutional to Execute Someone Who Is Innocent (And If It Isn't, How Can It Be Stopped Following House v. Bell)? Citation: 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 277 (2006) Author: Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier Title: Dead Innocent: The Death Penalty Abolitionist Search for a Wrongful Execution Citation: 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 403 (2006) Author: Ellen Kreitzberg, Linda Carter Title: Innocent of a Capital Crime: Parallels between Innocence of a Crime and Innocence of the Death Penalty Citation: 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 437 (2006) Author: Lauren M. Lomax Title: NOTE, "Boys Will Be Boys": Juvenility, Mental Retardation, and the Death Penalty Citation: 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 463 (2006)

November 19, 2007

Author: Helen Shin Title: NOTE, Is the Death of the Death Penalty Near? The Impact of Atkins and Roper on the Future of Capital Punishment for Mentally Ill Defendants Citation: 76 Fordham L. Rev. 465 (2007) Author: Deborah W. Denno Title: The Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled the Death Penalty Citation: 76 Fordham L. Rev. 49 (2007) Author: O. Carter Snead Title: Neuroimaging and the "Complexity" of Capital Punishment Citation: 82 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1265 (2007) Author: Harry F. Tepker Title: Tradition and the Abolition of Capital Punishment for Juvenile Crime Citation: 59 Okla. L. Rev. 809 (2006).

November 12, 2007

Author: Gershowitz, Adam M. Title: Imposing a Cap on Capital Punishment Citation: 72 Mo. L. Rev. 73 (2007).