Capital Punishment

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Seduction of Innocence: The Attraction and Limitations of the Focus on Innocence in Capital Punishment Law and…

Carol S. Steiker, Things Fall Apart, but the Center Holds: The Supreme Court and the Death Penalty, 77 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1475 (2002).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan Steiker, A Tale of Two Nations: Implementation of the Death Penalty in “Executing” Versus “Symbolic” States in the United States,…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Capital Punishment: A Century of Discontinuous Debate 100 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 643 (2010).

Carol S. Steiker, Book Review: Capital Punishment and Contingency, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 760 (2012)(reviewing David Garland, Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Lessons for Law Reform from the American Experiment with Capital Punishment, 87 S. Cal. L. Rev. 733 (2014).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The American Death Penalty and the (In)Visibility of Race, 82 U. Chi. L. Rev. 243 (2015).

Carol S. Steiker, No, Capital Punishment is Not Morally Required: Deterrence, Deontology, and the Death Penalty, 58 Stan. L. Rev. 751 (2005).

Carol S. Steiker, Raising the Bar: Maples v. Thomas and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel, 127 Harv. L. Rev. 468 (2013).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Part II: Report to the ALI Concerning Capital Punishment, 89 Tex. L. Rev. 367 (2010).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, No More Tinkering: The American Law Institute and the Death Penalty Provisions of the Model Penal Code, 89…

Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz on Killing: How the Law Decides Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die (2023).

Alan M. Dershowitz, The Death Penalty in the Court: How It All Began, in Reason and Passion Justice Brennan’s Enduring Influence (E. Joshua Rosenkranz &…

Alan M. Dershowitz, Spies and Scapegoats, N.Y. Times, Aug. 4, 1983, at BR1 (reviewing Ronald Radosh & Joyce Milton, The Rosenberg File: A Search for…

Adrian Vermeule & Cass R. Sunstein, Deterring Murder: A Reply, 58 Stan. L. Rev. 847 (2005).

Adrian Vermeule & Cass R. Sunstein, Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? Acts, Omissions and Life-Life Tradeoffs, 58 Stan. L. Rev. 703 (2005).