Capital Punishment

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Capital Punishment at a Constitutional Crossroads, 23 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 125 (2026).

Carol Steiker & Jordan Steiker, Judicial Abolition of the American Death Penalty under the Eighth Amendment: The Most Likely Path, in The Eighth Amendment and…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Foreignness of Furman, in Death Penalty in Decline?: The Fight against Capital Punishment in the Decades since…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Little Furmans Everywhere: State Court Intervention and the Decline of the American Death Penalty, 107 Cornell L. Rev.

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Court and Capital Punishment on Different Paths: Abolition in Waiting, 29 Wash. & Lee J. C.R. &…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Broken and Beyond Repair: The American Death Penalty and the Insuperable Obstacles to Reform, in The Oxford Handbook…

Carol Steiker, The Death Penalty and Deontology, in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law (John Deigh & David Dolinko eds. 2011).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration: Convergences and Divergences Mass Incarceration and the Death Penalty, 41 American Journal…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Capital Punishment, in Reforming Criminal Justice (2017).

Carol S. Steiker, Constitutional Regulation of Contested Social Issues: Lessons from the U.S. Supreme Court’s “Experiment” with Capital Punishment, in Nouveaux regards sur des modèles…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Aggravating and Mitigating Evidence, in The Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment (Robert M. Bohm & Gavin Lee eds.

Carol S. Steiker, End Of Its Rope: How Killing The Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (July 2018) (reviewing…

Carol Steiker, Expert Report of Carol Steiker (2024).

Carol Steiker, Capital punishment and the constitution, in The Elgar Companion to Capital Punishment and Society (Benjamin Fleury-Steiner & Austin D. Sarat eds., 2024).

Randall L. Kennedy, McClesky v. Kemp: Race, Capital Punishment, and the Supreme Court, 101 Harv. L. Rev. 1388 (1988).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States, 3 Ann. Rev. Criminology 299…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The American Death Penalty: Alternative Model for Ordinary Criminal Justice or Exception that Justifies the Rule?, 22 New…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Sober Second Thoughts: Reflections on Two Decades of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment, 109 Harv. L. Rev. 355…