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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT/DEATH PENALTY

 General Sources (books - articles - websites); Deterrence (books - articles)

General Websites

ACLU - Capital Punishment Section

Amnesty International Death Penalty - Lots of facts, figures, recent news and reports on the Death Penalty around the world

Bureau of Justice Statistics - Capital Punishment Statistics

Cornell Death Penalty Project

Death Penalty Information Center - Excellent up-to date resource

The National Death Penalty Archives - As hosted by U. of Albany - for more in-depth research.

Wikipedia - Information and Website Listings

Books

Title (alphabetical) Author Publisher/Year Location (linked if available at Suffolk)
       
The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law William Schabas, Cambridge University Press 2002 K5140.S33
Against Death Penalty Jon Yorke Ashgate 2008 K5104.A94
The Bitter Fruit of American Justice: International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty Alan Clarke Northeastern Press 2007 KF 9227.C2.C55
Capital Punishment (statistics, US history, organizations, etc). Raphael Goldman (ed. by Ann Chih Lin) CQ Press 2002 HV 8699.U5.G66
Capital Punishment ed. Mary Williams Greenhaven 2000 HV 8699.U5.C2923
Capital Punishment: A Reference Handbook Michael Kronenwetter ABC-CLIO 2001 HV 8699.U5.K76
Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition ed. Peter Hodgkinson & William Schabas Cambridge U. Press 2004 HV 8694.C2853
Dead Certainty: the Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment Jennifer Culbert Stanford U. Press 2008 HV 8699.U5.C86
Death Defying, Dismantling the Execution Machinery in 21st Century U.S.A. Pam McAllister Continuum 2003 HV8699.U5 M38
Death Justice: Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and the Contradictions of the Death Penalty Kenneth Miller & David Niven LFB 2009 KF 9227.C2.M55
Death Penalty in a Nutshell Victor Streib Thomson 2008 KF 9227.C2.S772
The Death Penalty: a Worldwide Perspective Roger Hood Oxford U. Press 2002 HV 8694.H659
The Death Penalty. A Worldwide Perspective (4th Edition) Roger Hood & Carolyn Hoyle 2008 (3rd edition available only here)
The Death Penalty Today ed. Robert Bohm CRC 2008 KF 9227.C2.D43
The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence Frank Baumgartner, et al Cambridge University Press 2008 HV 8699.B38
Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States Louis Palmer McFarland 2001 HV8694.P35
The Future of America's Death Penalty: an Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research eds. Charles Lanier, William Bowers & James Acker Carolina Academic Press 2009 KF 9227.C2.F883
Understanding Capital Punishment Law Linda Carter, Ellen Kreitzberg & Scott Howe LexisNexis 2008 KF 9227.C2.C37
Wrongful Capital Convictions and the Legitimacy of the Death Penalty Karen Miller LFB 2006 Suffolk Electronic Access

Deterrence Books

Author Title/Year Location (linked if available at Suffolk)
     
Alfred Blumstein, et al Deterrence and Incapacitation: Estimating the Effects of Criminal Sanctions on Crimes Rates (1978) KF9728.N277
Robert M. Bohm Chapter 5: General Deterrence and the Death Penalty (1999)  
Naci H. Mocan & R. Kaj Gittings The Impact of Incentives on Human Behavior: Can We Make It Disappear? The Case of the Death Penalty (October 2006)  
R.D. Peterson & W.C. Bailey Is Capital Punishment an effective deterrent for murder? An examination of social science research (2003)  

General Capital Punishment Articles (selected list)

Title Author Journal (linked if journal available at Suffolk) Comments (if available)
Dead Wrong in Oklahoma Randall Coyne 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 209 (Fall 2006) Describing cases of three men executed but later exonerated
Death by Statute. The Turbulent History of New York's Death Penalty Edward J. Maggio 77 N.Y. St. B. J. 11 (Feb. 2005) Provides history death penalty in New York from earliest period up to 2004ish
Does the Threat of the Death Penalty Affect Plea Bargaining in Murder Cases? Evidence from New York's 1995 Reinstatement of Capital Punishment Ilyana Kuziemko 8 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 116 (2006)  
Executing the Insane: A Look at Death Penalty Schemes in Arkansas, Georgia and Texas Stephanie Zywien 12 Suffolk J. Trial & App. Advoc. 93 (2007) Explores statutory death penalty and habeas corpus schemes in Arkansas, GA and TX with regard to sever mental illness individuals
Reforming Federal Death Penalty Procedures: Court Modest Proposals to Improve the Administration of the Ultimate Penalty Robert Steinbuch 40 Ind. L. Rev. 97 (2007) An expanded analysis of author's own recommendations to Congress for reforms that will improve federal capital punishment determinations
Remedies for California's Death Row Deadlock Judge Arthur L. Alarc 80 S. Cal. L. Rev. 697 (May 2007)  
Should the ALI take a Position on Capital Punishment? Evan Lee 18 Fed. Sent. Rep. 187 (2006).  
Slow Dancing with Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, 1963-2006 James S. Liebman 107 Colum. L. Rev. 1 (Jan. 2007) Provides an in-depth historical and doctrinal discussion of the Supreme Court's treatment of death penalty cases, up to and including 2006
The Meaningless of Delayed Appointments and Discretionary Grants of Capital Postconviction Counsel Celestine Richards McConville 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 253 (Fall 2006) Exploring state unwillingness to provide able, funded and constitutionally effective counsel to capital cases
Why It Is So Difficult To Prove Innocence In Capital Cases Kenneth Williams 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 241 (Fall 2006)  
Creole and Unusual Punishment – A Tenth Anniversary Examination of Louisiana's Capital Rape Statute James H. Levine 51 Vill. L. Rev. 417 (2006)  
The Death Penalty in Tennessee: Reforming a Broken System Judge Gilbert S. Merritt 41 Tenn. Bar J. 22 (2005)  
The Constitutionality of the Death Penalty: South Africa as a Model for the United States Mark S. Kende 38 Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev. 209 (2006)  
The Federal Death Penalty System 1988-2000 U.S. Department of State    

Deterrence Articles

Title Author Journal (linked if journal available at Suffolk)
     
A "commonsense" theory of deterrence and the "ideology" of science: The New York death penalty debate J.M. Galliher & J.F. Galliher 92 J. Crim. Law & Criminology 307 (2002)
A New Statistical Analysis of Capital Punishment Incorporating U.S. Postmoratorium Data James A. Yunker 82 Soc. Sci. Q. 297 (2002)
Broken promise: The Supreme Court's response to social science research on capital punishment C. Haney & D.D. Logan 50 J. Soc. Issues 75 (1994)
Capital Punishment and Deterrence: A Portfolio Approach Dale O. Cloninger 24 App. Econ. 645 (1992)
Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Examining the Effect of Executions on Murder in Texas Jon Sorenson et al. 45 Crime & Delinq. 481 (1999)
Capital Punishment and Homicide. Sociological Realities and Econometric Illusions Ted Goertzel 2004 - available here
Capital Punishment and the Deterrence Hypothesis: Some New Insights and Empirical Evidence Zhiqiang Liu 30 E. Econ. J. 237 (2004)
Capital Punishment, The Moratorium Movement, and Empirical Questions C. S. Lanier & James R. Acker 10 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 577 (2004)
Challenging Deterrence: New Insights on Capital Punishment Derived From Panel Data Craig Albert 60 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 321 (1999)
Dead Man Walking: An Empirical Reassessment of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment Using the Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration Paresh Narayan & Russell Smyth App. Econ., vol. 38, no. 17 (Sep. 2006)
Death and Deterrence Redux: Science, Law and Causal Reasoning on Capital Punishment Jeffrey Fagan 4 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 255 (2006)
Deterrence and brutalization The dual effects of executions J.K. Cochran & M.B. Chamlin 17 Justice Quarterly 685 (2000)
Deterrence or brutalization? An impact assessment of Oklahoma's return to capital punishment J.K. Cochran, M.B. Chamlin & M. Seth 32 Criminology 107 (1994)
Deterrence Versus Brutalization: Capital Punishments Differing Impacts Among States Joanna M. Shepherd 104 Mich. L. Rev. 203 (2005)
Deterrence versus brutalization: The case of Arizona E. Thompson 1 Homicide Studies 110 (1997)
Deterrence, brutalization, and the death penalty: Another examination of Oklahoma's return to capital punishment W.C. Bailey 74 Criminology 711 (1998)
Deterring Murder: A Reply Cass R. Sunstein & Adrian Vermeule 58 Stan. L. Rev. 847 (Dec. 2005)
Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Postmoratorium Panel Data Hashem Dezhbakhsh et al. 5 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 344 (2003)
Estimates of the Deterrent Effect of Alternative Execution Methods in the United States: 1978-2000 Paul R. Zimmerman 65 Am. J. Econ. & Soc. 909 (2006)
Execution and Deterrence: A Quasi-Controlled Group Experiment Dale O Cloninger & Roberto Marchesini 35 App. Econ. 569 (2001)
Executions, Deterrence, and the Incidence of Murder Paul R. Zimmerman 7 J. App. Econ. 163 (2004) - available here
Executions, Moratoriums, Commutations, and Deterrence: The Case of Illinois Dale O. Cloninger & Roberto Marchesini (June 2005) - Available here
Getting Off Death Row: Commuted Sentences and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment H. Naci Mocan & R. Kaj Gittings 46 J.L. & Econ. 453 (2003)
Life v. Death: Who Should Capital Punishment Marginally Deter? Charles N. W. Keckler Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, vol. 2, no. 1 (2006)
Murders of Passion, Execution Delays, and the Deterrence of Capital Punishment Joanna M. Shepherd 33 J. Legal Stud. 283 (2004).
New Claims about Execution and General Deterrence: Deja Vu All over Again? Richard Berk Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol. 2, issue 2 (2005)
No, Capital Punishment is Not Morally Required: Deterrence, Deontology, and the Death Penalty Carol S. Steiker 58 Stan. L. Rev. 751 (Jan. 2006)
On the Uses and 'Abuses' of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate Wolfers, Justin and Donohue, John J. 2006 - available here
Perceived Risk of Punishment and the Commission of Homicides: A Covariance Structure Analysis Harold J Brumm & Dale O. Cloninger 31 J. Econ. Behav. & Org. 1 (1996)
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence Lawrence Katz et al. 5 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 318 (2003)
State Executions, Deterrence and the Incidence of Murder Paul R. Zimmerman Journal of Applied Economics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 163-193 (May 2004)
The Death Penalty Meets Social Science: Deterrence and Jury Behavior Under New Scrutiny Robert Weisberg Annual Review of Law and Social Science, vol. 1, pp. 151-170 (December 2005)
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death Isaac Ehrlich 65 Am. Eco. Rev. 397 (1975)
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: An Analysis of Daily Homicide Counts Jeffrey Grogger 85 J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 410 (1990)
The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: Evidence from a "Judicial Experiment" Hashem Dezhbakhsh & Joanna M. Shepherd 44 Econ. Enquiry 512 (2006) - available here
The Problem of Capital Punishment John Kaplan U. Ill. L. Rev. 561 (1983)
The Secret Ambition of Deterrence Dan M. Kahan 113 Harv. L. Rev. 436 (1999)


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