Capital punishment

Draft a 2500-word minimum, double-spaced paper on a law-related topic of your choice, using at least three scholarly sources. Analyze and explain a legal topic that is of interest to you. You must use three scholarly sources, which are peer-reviewed journals or law reviews. Unacceptable, non-scholarly sources are magazines, newspapers, web sites (unless you have received approval from me), Wikipedia and anything like it, and other popular media. If in doubt as to whether a source meets the scholarly standard, then email me to ask. Use a recognized form of citation in your paper, such as Chicago, MLA, or the Blue Book. Use footnotes, not endnotes or in-text citation. Grammar, style, and spelling will all count, in addition to the substance of your analysis and explanation. Try to have fun by picking a topic about which you are curious. Your paper topic and sources must be PRE-APPROVED BY ME. You cannot cooperate with any other person on this assignment. You work must be your own.

SOURCES

Malkani, Bharat. “Dignity and the death penalty in the United States Supreme Court.” Hastings Const. LQ 44 (2016): 145.
– Steiker, Carol S., and Jordan M. Steiker. “The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States.” Annual Review of Criminology 3 (2020): 299-315.
– Garrett, Brandon L., Alexander Jakubow, and Ankur Desai. “The American death penalty decline.” The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-) 107, no. 4 (2017): 561-642.

Mitchell, Jonathan F. “Capital Punishment and the Courts.” Harvard Law Review, vol. 130, no. 7, 2017, pp. 269-275.