Spring 2004
The Future of Capital Punishment: Current Policies and New Debates
Learning Links and Readings
Right to Counsel
How Many Innocent Inmates are
Executed? by Ky Henderson. Human Rights (A publication of the ABA
Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section), Volume 24, Number 4 (Fall 1997).
Describes poor legal representation in death penalty proceedings.
Inept Defenses Cloud Verdict: Second of a Five-Part Series.
by Ken Armstrong and Steve Mills. Chicago Tribune, November 15, 1999.
Lawyers
Call for Changes in Death Penalty in Texas by Jim Yardley. The New York Times
on the Web, October 16, 2000.
Describes reports of poor representation and cursory appeals process.
Neither
Equal nor Just: The Rationing and Denial of Legal Services to the Poor when Life and
Liberty are at Stake by Stephen B. Bright. Annual Survey of American Law,
Volume 1997 (1999).
Representing a Child in Adult Criminal
Court by Malcolm C. Young. Criminal Justice Magazine (A publication of
the ABA Criminal Justice Section), Vol. 15, Issue, 1 (Spring 2000).
The perspective of a criminal defense lawyer about the challenges of defending children in
adult courts.

