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Human Rights

Death Penalty Resources

Websites

American Bar Association
www.abanet.org/irr/pubs.html
www.abanet.org/litigation/public/penalty.html
www.abanet.org/crimjust/juvjus/deathpenalty.html

ACLU
www.aclu.org/death-penalty

Amnesty International
www.amnesty-usa.org/abolish/

Constitution Project Death Penalty Initiative
www.constitutionproject.org

Death Penalty Information Center
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org

The Moratorium Campaign
www.Moratoriumcampaign.org

Southern Center for Human Rights
www.schr.org

Texas Appleseed Fair Defense Project
www.appleseeds.net

U.S. Dept. of Justice
www.usdoj.gov

Articles

Ken Armstrong & Steve Mills, Gatekeeper Court Keeps Gates Shut, CHI. TRIB., June 12, 2000.

Stephen B. Bright, Death by Lottery-Procedural Bar of Constitutional Claims in Capital Cases Due to Inadequate Representation of Indigent Defendants, 92 W. VA. L. REV. 679 (1990).

Stephen B. Bright, Does the Bill of Rights Apply Here Any More? Evisceration of Habeas Corpus and Denial of Counsel to Those under Sentence of Death, THE CHAMPION, Nov. 1996.

James S. Liebman, More Than "Slightly Retro": The Rehnquist Court's Rout of Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction in Teague v. Lane, 18 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 537 (1991).

Panel Discussion, Capital Punishment: Is There Any Habeas Left in This Corpus? 27 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 523 (1996).

Panel Discussion, Dead Man Walking Without Due Process? A Discussion of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, 23 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 163 (1997).

Ann Woolner, No-Help Habeas: When the Condemned's Right to Habeas Corpus Is No Right at All, LEGAL TIMES, Mar. 15, 1999.

Larry W. Yackle, Developments in Habeas Corpus (pts. 1-3), THE CHAMPION, Sept./Oct. 1997; Part II, THE CHAMPION, Nov. 1997; Part III, THE CHAMPION, Dec.1997.

Ken Armstrong & Steve Mills, Death Penalty in State Faces New Challenge: Ban Urged for Mentally Retarded Defendants, CHI. TRIB., Feb. 6, 2000.

Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation, (Human Rights Watch, New York, N.Y.) Mar. 2001.

Raymond Bonner & Sara Rimer, Executing the Mentally Retarded Even as Laws Begin to Shift, N.Y. TIMES, Aug. 7, 2000.

M. Catherine Healy, Riggins v. Nevada: Are "Synthetically Sane" Criminal Defendants Competent to Stand Trial?, 20 NEW ENG. J. ON CRIM. & CIV. CONFINEMENT 385 (1994).

Christopher Slobogin, Mental Illness and the Death Penalty, 24 MENT. & PHYS. DISAB. L. REP. 667 (2000).

Carol Steiker & Jordan Steiker, Defending Categorical Exemptions to the Death Penalty: Reflections on the ABA's Resolutions Concerning the Execution of Juveniles and Persons with Mental Retardation, 61 L. & CONTEMP. PROBLEMS 89 (1998).

ABA Publications

American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project, ABA Study: An Updated Analysis of the Right to Counsel and the Right to Compensation and Expenses in State Post-Conviction Death Penalty Cases (June 1996), available at www.abanet.org/litigation/public/penalty.html.

American Bar Association Task Force on Death Penalty Habeas Corpus, Toward a More Just and Effective System of Review in State Death Penalty Cases: A Report Containing the American Bar Association's Recommendations Concerning Death Penalty Habeas Corpus and Related Materials from the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section's Project on Death Penalty Habeas Corpus, 40 AM. U. L. REV. 1 (1990).

American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project, ABA Study: James C. Coleman, Jr., ed., The ABA's Proposed Moratorium on the Death Penalty, 61 L. & CONTEMP. PROBLEMS 1 (1998).

Randall Coyne & Lyn Entzeroth, Report Regarding Implementation of the American Bar Association's Recommendations and Resolutions Concerning the Death Penalty and Calling for a Moratorium on Executions, 4 GEO. J. ON POVERTY L. & POL'Y 3 (1996).

A Gathering Momentum, 2000 A.B.A. SEC. INDIV. RTS. & RESPONSIBILITIES, available at www.abanet.org/irr/report.html.

Death Penalty Moratorium Resolution and Report, 1997 A.B.A. SEC. INDIV. RTS. & RESPONSIBILITIES, available at www.abanet.org/irr/pubs.html

Refocusing the Death Penalty Discussion in America: Impact of the American Bar Association Call for a Moratorium on Executions, 1998 A.B.A. SEC. INDIV. RTS. & RESPONSIBILITIES, available at www.abanet.org/irr/pubs.html

IRR Death Penalty Committee

Dorean Koenig, co-chair
Phone: 517/334-5741
E-mail: koenigd@cooley.edu

Ronald J. Tabak, co-chair
Phone: 212/735-2226
E-mail: rtabak@skadden.com