Study: Pollution worries women more
Title: Study: Pollution worries women more Year: 2004 Publisher: The Chicago Tribune Author: Jon Van Issue: February 12, 1996 Description: A discussion of pollution laws extends into changing attitudes of the relationship between men and women, including the use of capital punishment in the United States.
Leigh Bienen: a career from fiction writing to capital punishment
Title: Leigh Bienen: a career from fiction writing to capital punishment Year: 2016 Interviewer: Joe Popely Publisher: Northwestern Now Issue: November 13, 2016 Description: Podcast with the author, researcher and reformer who opens up about her winding, impactful career Podcast link
Of Race, Crime and Punishment
Title: Of Race, Crime and Punishment Year: 1987 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: The New York Times Issue: June 21, 1987 Description: 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 […]
No Savings In Lives or Money With Death Penalty
Title: No Savings In Lives or Money With Death Penalty Year: 1988 Author: Linda Emanuel and Leigh Bienen Publisher: The New York Times Issue: August 7, 1988 Description: 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 […]
Physician Participation in Executions: Time To Eliminate Anonymity Provisions and Protest the Practice
Title: Physician Participation in Executions: Time To Eliminate Anonymity Provisions and Protest the Practice Year: 2001 Author: Linda Emanuel and Leigh Bienen Publisher: Annals of Internal Medicine Issue: Volume 135, No. 10, pp.922-924 Description: In this issue, Farber and colleagues have provided dramatic findings that warrant the attention of the profession. In their study, a […]
The Reimposition of Capital Punishment in New Jersey: Felony Murder Cases
Title: The Reimposition of Capital Punishment in New Jersey: Felony Murder Cases Year: 1990 Author: Leigh B. Bienen, Neil Alan Weiner, Paul D. Allison, Douglas Lane Mills Publisher: Albany Law Review Issue: Volume 54, Issue: 3/4, pp. 709-817 Description: This article reports research findings from the analysis of the nature and processing of felony murder […]
The Proportionality Review of Capital Cases By State High Courts after Gregg: Only “The Appearance of Justice”?
Title: The Proportionality Review of Capital Cases By State High Courts after Gregg: Only “The Appearance of Justice”? Year: 1996 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 87, Issue 1, pp. 130-314 Description: Both the seriousness of the crime and the economic health of the county influence decisions to […]
Capital Punishment in Illinois in the Aftermath of the Ryan Commutations: Reforms, Economic Realities, and a New Saliency for Issues of Cost
Title: Capital Punishment in Illinois in the Aftermath of the Ryan Commutations: Reforms, Economic Realities, and a New Saliency for Issues of Cost Year: 2010 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 100, Issue 4 (Fall), Article 2 Description: In 2000 when Governor George Ryan unilaterally imposed a statewide […]
Can the Death Penalty Be Administered Fairly—No
Title: Can the Death Penalty Be Administered Fairly—No Year: 1998 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Spectrum—The Council of State Governments Issue: Volume 71, No. 1 Description: Since 1976, 38 states have re-enacted capital punishment statutes, and the state supreme courts have upheld these statutes, But from coast to coast, the death penalty remains fundamentally unfair […]
Afterword to Lunatics and Anarchists: Political Homicide in Chicago
Title: Afterword to Lunatics and Anarchists: Political Homicide in Chicago Year: 2002 Author: Leigh B. Bienen, Thomas J. O’Gorman Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 92, Issues 3-4, pp. 805-807 Description: On the assassination of Mayor Carter Harrison, the trial and failed use of the insanity defense, and execution of his assassin, […]