Not wiser after 35 years of contemplating the death penalty

Abstract

Is the death penalty dying? This autobiographical essay offers observations on the application of capital punishment in three very different legal jurisdictions at three different time periods when – partially by happenstance and partially by design – she was a homicide researcher, a participant and an observer of profound changes in the jurisdiction's application of the death penalty.

Citation

Bienen, L.B. (2008), "Not wiser after 35 years of contemplating the death penalty", Sarat, A. (Ed.) Special Issue: Is the Death Penalty Dying? (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 42), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 91-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1059-4337(07)00404-8