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Human Rights Beyond the War on Terrorism: Extradition Defenses Based on Prison Conditions in the United States
(Santa Clara Law Review, 2002)
The death penalty presents an issue where a clearly stated norm that is widely held by U.S. allies exists in stark contrast to U.S. practices. The war on terrorism has shone a spotlight on European refusals to extradite ...
Mental Disorder as an Exemption from the Death Penalty: The ABA-IRR Task Force Recommendations
(Catholic University Law Review, 2005)
The Task Force on Mental Disability and the Death Penalty (Task Force) established by the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association (ABA-IRR) has proposed that the ABA adopt three ...
European Courts, American Rights: Extradition and Prison Conditions
(Brooklyn Law Review, 2002)
Part I of this Article discusses the rising number of extradition requests by the United States, the common grounds for denial of extradition, and the controversies that such
denials have aroused. Part II examines Soering ...
What Atkins Could Mean for People with Mental Illness
(New Mexico Law Review, 2003)
This article, written for a symposium on Atkins v. Virginia - the Supreme Court decision that prohibited execution of people with mental retardation - argues that people with severe mental illness must now also be protected ...
Is Atkins the Antithesis or Apotheosis of Anti-Discrimination Principles? Sorting Out the Groupwide Effects of Exempting People with Mental Retardation from the Death Penalty
(Alabama Law Review, 2004)
In "Atkins v. Virginia", the U.S. Supreme Court held that people with mental retardation may not be executed. z Many advocates for people with disability cheered the decision, because it provides a group of disabled people ...
How Different is Death? Jury Sentencing in Capital and Non-Capital Cases Compared
(Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2004)
Drawing upon a recent study of felony jury sentencing in Kentucky, Virginia, and Arkansas, this essay highlights some of the similarities and differences between jury sentencing in capital cases and jury sentencing in ...