Publications: Commentary

Year	Title	Author	Publisher	Issue	Description
2001	Physician Participation in Executions: Time To Eliminate Anonymity Provisions and Protest the Practice	Linda Emanuel and Leigh Bienen	Annals of Internal Medicine	Volume 135, No. 10, pp. 922-924	In this issue, Farber and colleagues have provided dramatic findings that warrant the attention of the profession. In their study, a large minority of physicians reported willingness to be personally involved in executions for capital cases. This image of a white-coated symbol of care working with or as the black-hooded executioner is in striking contrast to established physi- cian ethics, which bar physicians from involvement with executions [Read more]
1988	No Savings In Lives or Money With Death Penalty	Leigh Bienen	The New York Times	Aug 7, 1988	The death penalty is a fraud upon the public. The taxpayers are being sold a bill of goods. Both a simple and a complex analysis of the costs and benefits of the death penalty, and of the logic behind re-enactment, indicate that the policy accomplishes nothing its proponents claim, and its cost is exorbitant. [Read more]
1987	Of Race, Crime and Punishment	Leigh Bienen	The New York Times	Jun 21, 1987	The United States Supreme Court has declared that it is unpersuaded by statistical evidence indicating that the capital-case processing system in Georgia may be significantly affected by race, in particular by whether or not the victim is white. [Read more]