Lauren Klosinski | January 27, 2021 | Sentencing
The Marshall Project posted an article detailing what the future of criminal justice could look like under the Biden administration. The article outlines key elements of President Biden’s policies on policing reform, juvenile justice, the death penalty, bail reform,...
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...
Shima Baradaran Baughman and Megan Wright | November 5, 2020 | Sentencing
Shima Baradaran Baughman of the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law and Megan S. Wright of Penn State Law have posted “Prosecutors and Mass Incarceration” (Southern California Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: It has long been...
Lauren Klosinski | March 30, 2020 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
The article “Justices Put Juvenile Sentencing Back On The Front Burner” from Law360 discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case Jones v. Mississippi, which features a petition asking whether the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual...
Samantha Melamed | September 12, 2019 | Sentencing
This article was originally featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer on September 10.What’s the meaning of “life”?That’s a question Pennsylvania’s highest court will ponder Wednesday, as it follows other courts around the country in grappling with the question of how...
