Spring 2004
The Future of Capital Punishment: Current Policies and New Debates

Learning Links & Readings

Innocence/Moratorium

“ABA President Calls on Nation’s Governors to Halt Executions in Capital Punishment States.” ABA Division for Media Relations and Communication Services, October 2000.

“A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995” by James Liebman, Jeffrey Fagan, and Valerie West. Cornell Law School, 2000.

“Capital Punishment on the 25^th Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia: A Report by the Southern Center for Human Rights” by Stephen B. Bright. Southern Center for Human Rights, June 26, 1997.

Chicago Tribune Five-Part Series

• “Death Row Justice Derailed: First of a Five-Part Series.” by Ken Armstrong and Steve Mills. Chicago Tribune, November 14, 1999.
• “Inept Defenses Cloud Verdict: Second of a Five-Part Series.” by Ken Armstrong and Steve Mills. Chicago Tribune, November 15, 1999.
• “The Jailhouse Informant: Third of a Five-Part Series.” by Steve Mills and Ken Armstrong. Chicago Tribune, November 16, 1999.
• “A Tortured Path to Death Row: Fourth of a Five-Part Series.” Chicago Tribune, November 17, 1999.
• “Convicted by a Hair: Last of a Five-Part Series.” Chicago Tribune, November 18, 1999.

“Clinton Grants Death Penalty Reprieve.” American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Network, August 2, 2000.

“The Death Penalty in 1999: Year End Report.” Death Penalty Information Center, December 1999.

“Fatal Flaws: Innocence and the Death Penalty.” Rights for All: Amnesty International’s Campaign on the United States of America.
Discusses innocence as a legal standard and includes case histories.

“Lawyers Call for Changes in Death Penalty in Texas” by Jim Yardley. The New York Times on the Web, October 16, 2000.

“Moratorium on the Death Penalty for Juveniles” by Victor L. Streib. Law and Contemporary Problems (A publication of Duke University School of Law), Volume 61, Number 4 (Autumn 1998).

“New DNA Tests are Seen as Key to Virginia Case” by Francis X. Clines. The New York Times on the Web, September 7, 2000.

“No Executions in Illinois until System is Repaired: Governor Seeks a Death Penalty Guarantee” by Dirk Johnson. The New York Times on the Web, May 21, 2000.

“Ohio Bills Seeks Moratorium.” American Civil Liberties Freedom Network.

“USA: Increasing Concern over Execution of the Innocent.” Amnesty International Death Penalty News, June 2000.

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