2011 Documents

Struck By Lightning
The Continuing Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty
Thirty-Five Years After Its Re-instatement in 1976
A Report of the Death Penalty Information Center
by Richard C. Dieter, Executive Director
Washington, DC
July 2011

Gaming the System:
How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies
Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies
Justice Policy Institute
June 2011

Smart on Crime
Recommendation for the Administration and Congress
February 2011

2010 Documents

Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2010

The Year in Review

Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

December 2010

The Death Penalty in 2010

Year End Report

Death Penalty Information Centre

December 2010

Texas Justice American Injustice
Robert Perkinson
t r u t h o u t
April 10, 2010

Examiners Presentation to the Sharon Keller Inquiry
Seana Willing, Examiner
John J. McKetta III, Special Counsel
June 18, 2010


Commissions Finding on the Sharon Keller Inquiry
A Public Warning
July 16, 2010

2009 Documents

Death Sentences and Executions 2009
Amnesty International


Death Row USA Fall 2009
A quarterly report by the Criminal Justice Project of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.


TDCJ Statistical Report 2009
Texas Department of Criminal Justice


Of Guilt, Defiance and Repentance: Evidence From the Texas Death Chamber
Stephen K. Rice, Danielle Dirks and Julie J. Exline - Justice Quarterly


Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty in a Time of Economic Crisis
from the Death Penalty Information Center


Criminology: Legal Disparities in the Capital of Capital Punishment
Scott Phillips - Northwestern University School of Law


The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
from OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights


Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution
Jules Lobel - University of Pittsburgh School of Law

2004 Documents

Deadly Speculation: Misleading Texas Capital Juries
from the Texas Defender Service