Related to ICDP recent post on APA's Amicus briefs re: adolescent cognitive maturity and capital punishment, the ACS Blog has a guest post re: whether SCOTUS should apply the Roper Reasoning to juveniles life-without-parole cases.
The CrimProf Blog featured a law review article (link to article is with post) by Markel on Panetti, Retributive Theory, and the Eighth Amendment. As briefly outlined at CrimProf:
Markel dan Dan Markel (Florida State University College of Law) has published a thoughtful and nuanced article in the Northwestern University Law Review, Executing Retributivism: Panetti and the Future of Eighth Amendment. He argues that the version of retributivism that led to the Court's limits on executing the mentally incompetent have far more extensive implications.
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