Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

The book traces the history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the U.S.

Constitution and its unanticipated consequences.

It explores the arbitrariness of the modern death penalty system, including racial and geographic disparities, and the Court’s failure to adequately address these issues.

The authors argue that significant constitutional flaws persist despite the Court’s attempts to regulate capital punishment and present a case for its abolition in the near future.