Miriam Rodgers McClure (Oxford): Punishment: The Very Idea. Jim Staihar (Maryland): Proportionality and Punishment. Gil Garcetti reviews An Eye for an Eye: A Global History of Crime and Punishment by Mitchel P. Roth. Anthony S. Wan and Bryan H. Druzin (CUHK): The Theatre of Punishment: Case Studies in the Political Function of Corporal and Capital Punishment. Eric Berger (Nebraska): The Executioners' Dilemmas. Marah Stith McLeod (Columbia): Does the Death Penalty Require Death Row? The Harm of Legislative Silence. Corinna Lain reviews A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America by Evan Mandery and Payback: The Case for Revenge by Thane Rosenbaum. From TNR, David B. Waisel and Paul Litton on why the lethal injection drug debated by the Supreme Court is unconstitutional; and the Supreme Court conservatives accuse death penalty opponents of “guerrilla war”: Cristian Farias on how a case about a lethal injection drug turns into a debate about capital punishment itself. Utah’s firing squad plan is another twist in America’s long quest for a perfect execution method. Christophe Haubursin on America’s 1,407 executions since 1976, mapped. The death penalty becomes rare: In 2012, only 59 of the 3,144 counties in America actually sentenced people to be executed. Is this the beginning of the end of the death penalty? Tara Culp-Ressler wonders. The death penalty is having quite a moment — and that may help efforts to abolish it.
