Lauren Klosinski | February 3, 2021 | Sentencing
The Death Penalty Information Center has released its year-end report on “The Death Penalty in 2020.” The Death Penalty Information Center is a national non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning...
Susan A. Bandes | January 8, 2021 | Sentencing
Susan A. Bandes of DePaul University College of Law authored “The Death Penalty and the Misleading Concept of ‘Closure’” published by The Crime Report on Jan 8. 2020. The following is an excerpt. When William Barr first served as U.S. Attorney General, in...
Alexandra Klein | December 15, 2020 | Sentencing
Alexandra Klein of Washington and Lee University School of Law has posted “Nondelegating Death” (Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 81 , 2020) on SSRN. The following is the abstract.Most states’ method-of-execution statutes afford broad discretion to executive...
Lauren Klosinski | July 30, 2019 | Sentencing
On July 25, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing that Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt an addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol and schedule the executions of five death-row inmates...
Lauren Klosinski | May 30, 2019 | Sentencing
New Hampshire is now the 21st U.S. state to have abolished capital punishment, state legislature voted to override a veto by Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday, May 30.After a years-long effort to repeal the state’s death penalty, the state’s Senate voted 16-8...
