For decades, legal commentators sounded the alarm about the tremendous power wielded
by prosecutors. Scholars went so far as to identify uncurbed prosecutorial discretion as the …

In 1764, Cesare Beccaria, the 26-year-old eldest son of an Italian nobleman, published a
short treatise, Dei delitti e delle pene, that was translated into English three years later as On …

Although supported in principle by two-thirds of the public and even more of the States,
capital punishment in the United States is a minority practice when the actual death …

The State of Texas is known as the capital of capital punishment.'But is that reputation
deserved? In a way, yes. Texas sends more people to death row than any other state, and it …

The US Supreme Court has not squarely confronted the death penalty's constitutionality
since the 1970s. In that decade, the Court actually ruled both ways on the issue. In …

Sandwiched between a state criminal trial and a federal habeas corpus proceeding is a
lesser-known phase of criminal process called" state postconviction review"(" State PCR") …

The premise is by now familiar: constitutional adjudication-an integral feature of a
constitutional scheme legally committed to the protection of rights and the separation of …

STATE v. BUSH 423 P.3d 370 (2018) 244 Ariz. 575 STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Jason
Eugene BUSH, Appellant. No. CR-11-0107-AP. Supreme Court of Arizona. Filed August 16, …

Objective We examine the degree to which sentencing patterns in Texas capital cases vary
by the gender of the prosecutor. In so doing, we explore the possibility that a factor unrelated …

For many individuals who see the death penalty as inherently right or wrong, their positions
on the death penalty are not swayed by logical debate. For example, those opposed to the …