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Dec 15, 2020 · The interplay of four forces shaped the U.S. death penalty landscape in 2020: the nation’s long-term trend away from capital punishment; the worst global pandemic in more than a century;...
This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it?
The deep decline in death sentences and state executions was unquestionably a by-product of the pandemic, but even before the pandemic struck, the nation was on pace for the sixth straight year of near-record low sentences and executions. Read “The Death Penalty in 2020: Year End Report” at https://bit.ly/34ecLPv.
The claim made on behalf of victims is that capital punishment is needed as retribution for victims’ families and as deterrence for future criminals (Ellsworth & Gross, 1994). According to surveys of Americans, retribution is commonly cited as the most important reason for favoring the death penalty (Jones, 2003).
THE USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN 2020 “A modern system of criminal justice must be reasonably accurate, fair, humane, and timely. Our recent experience with the Federal Government’s resumption of executions adds to the mounting body of evidence that the death penalty cannot be reconciled with those values.”
Recommended Citation. Stetler, Russell, Death Penalty Keynote: Why Mitigation Matters, Now and for the Future, 61 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 699 (2021). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vol61/iss3/1. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Santa Clara Law Digital Commons.
Jul 27, 2020 · A top Justice Department official says for many Americans the death penalty is a difficult issue on moral, religious and policy grounds. But as a legal issue, it is straightforward.
