• Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, "If you cannot afford a lawyer..." A report on Georgia's failed indigent defense system (2003).
• Stephen B. Bright, Turning Celebrated Principles Into Reality, Champion, Jan.-Feb. 2003, at 6.
• Stephen B. Bright, Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, Promises to Keep: Achieving Fairness and Equal Justice for the Poor in Criminal Cases (2000).
• Allan K. Butcher & Michael K. Moore, Comm. on Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters, Muting Gideon's Trumpet: The Crisis in Indigent Criminal Defense in Texas (2000).
• Stephen B. Bright, Death In Texas, Champion, July 1999, at 16.
• Stephen B. Bright, Neither Equal Nor Just: The Rationing and Denial of Legal Services to the Poor When Life and Liberty are at Stake, 1997 Ann. Surv. Am. L. 783 (1999). 

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COST

• Subcomm. on Federal Death Penalty Cases, Comm. on Defender Services, Judicial Conference of the U.S., Federal Death Penalty Cases: Recommendations Concerning the Cost and Quality of Defense Representation (1998).  

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INNOCENCE

• David Protess & Rob Warden, A Promise of Justice: The Eighteen-Year Fight to Save Four Innocent Men (1998).
• Steven M. Pincus, Public Interest Law: Improving Access to Justice: "It's Good To Be Free" An Essay About the Exoneration of Albert Burrell, 28 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 27 (2001).
• Amnesty International, Fatal Flaws: Innocence and Death Penalty in the USA (1999).
• Leigh B. Bienen, The Quality of Justice in Capital Cases: Illinois as a Case Study, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1998, at 193.
• Michael L. Radelet & Hugo Adam Bedau, The Execution of the Innocent, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1998, at 105.
• Samuel R. Gross, Lost Lives: Miscarriages of Justice in Capital Cases, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1998, at 125.

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INTERNATIONAL

• Amnesty International, Belarus and Uzbekistan: the last executioners. The trend towards abolition in the former Soviet space (October 4, 2004).
• Amnesty International, Executed "According to Law"?- The Death Penalty in China (March 22, 2004).
• Amnesty International, People's Republic of China: Miscarriages of Justice- Selected Cases (March 22, 2004).
• Richard C. Dieter, Death Penalty Info. Ctr., International Perspectives on the Death Penalty: A Costly Isolation for the U.S. (1999).
• Question of the Death Penalty: Report of the United Nations Secretary General submitted pursuant to Commission resolution 1998/8, U.N. ESCOR, 55th Sess., Agenda Item 17(a), U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1999/52 (1999), revised by U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1999/52/Corr.1 (1999).
• Status of the International Covenants on Human Rights: Question of the Death Penalty, Report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to Commission resolution 1997/12, U.N. ESCOR, 54th Sess., Agenda Item 13, U.N. Doc. E/CN/4/1998/82 (1998).
• Question of the Violation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Any Part of the World, With Particular Reference to Colonial and Other Dependent Countries and Territories, Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial or arbitrary executions, Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, submitted pursuant to Commission resolution 1997/61,U.N. ESCOR, 54th Sess., Agenda Item 10, addendum pt. 3, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1998/68/Add.3 (1998).

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JUVENILES

• Amnesty International, Child Executions on the Way Out (2004).
• Nat'l Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Human Rights Human Wrongs: Sentencing Children to Death (2003).
• Amnesty International, The Exclusion of Child Offenders from the Death Penalty Under General International Law (2003).
• Victor L. Streib, The Juvenile Death Penalty Today: Death Sentences and Executions for Juvenile Crimes, January 1, 1973-April 30, 2004 (May 4, 2004) (PDF, 31 pages).
• Amnesty International, Indecent and Internationally Illegal: The Death Penalty Against Child Offenders (abridged version) (2002).
• Amnesty International, On the Wrong Side of History: Children and the Death Penalty in the USA (1998).
• Victor L. Streib, Moratorium on the Death Penalty for Juveniles, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1998, at 55.

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MENTAL RETARDATION

• James W. Ellis, Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty: A Guide to State Legislative Issues, 2002.
• Human Rights Watch, Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation (2001)

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OVERVIEWS

• Rachel King, ACLU, The Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia Three Decades Later: Why We Need a Temporary Halt on Executions (2003).
• ACLU, Broken Justice: The Death Penalty in Virginia (2003).
• Stephen B. Bright, Will the Death Penalty Stay Alive in the Twenty-first Century?: International Norms, Discrimination, Arbitrariness and the Risk of Executing the Innocent, 2001 Wis. L. Rev. 1. 
• Carol Steiker & Jordan Steiker, Defending Categorical Exemptions to the Death Penalty: Reflections on the ABA's Resolutions Concerning the Execution of Juveniles and Persons with Mental Retardation, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1998, at 89.
• Austin Sarat, Recapturing the Spirit of Furman: The American Bar Association and the New Abolitionist Politics, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1998, at 5.
• Louis D. Bilionis, Eighth Amendment Meanings From the ABA's Moratorium Resolution, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1998, at 29.

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POLITICS

• Stephen B. Bright, Elected Judges and the Death Penalty in Texas: Why Full Habeas Corpus Review by Independent Federal Judges is Indispensable to Protecting Constitutional Rights, 78 Texas L. Rev. 1806 (2000).

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PUBLIC PERCEPTION

• Statistics and polls.
• Richard C. Dieter, Death Penalty Info. Ctr, April Sentencing for Life: Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penalty (1993).

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RACE

• Amnesty International, Killing with Prejudice: Race and the Death Penalty in the USA (1999).
• Richard C. Dieter, Death Penalty Info. Ctr., The Death Penalty In Black and White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides (1998).
• John C. McAdams, Racial Disparity and the Death Penalty, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1998, at 153.

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STATE COMMISSION REPORTS

• Federal - September 2000
• Arizona- March 2001
• Connecticut- January 2003
• Illinois- April 2002
• Nebraska- July 2001
• Nevada- 2002
• North Carolina- 2001
• Pennsylvania- 1999
• Virginia- 2001

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WOMEN 

• Victor L. Streib, Death Penalty for Female Offenders, January 1, 1973, through December 31, 2003, (Dec. 2003),(PDF, 21 pages).
• Amy E. Pope, A Feminist Look at the Death Penalty, Law & Contemp. Probs., Winter 2002, at 257.

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