The Reimposition of Capital Punishment in New Jersey: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion
Title: The Reimposition of Capital Punishment in New Jersey: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion Year: 1988 Author: Leigh B. Bienen, Neil Alan Weiner, Deborah W. Denno, Paul D. Allison, Douglas Lane Mills Publisher: Rutgers Law Review Issue: Volume 41, No. 27, pp. 27-342 Description: After Furman v. Georgia held that state statutes that allow for […]
Not Wiser After Thirty Five Years of Contemplating the Death Penalty
Title: Not Wiser After Thirty Five Years of Contemplating the Death Penalty Year: 2008 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Studies in Law, Politics and Society Issue: Volume 42, pp. 91-133 Description: Is the death penalty dying? This autobiographical essay offers observations on the application of capital punishment in three very different legal jurisdictions at three […]
hang
Title: hang Year: 2018 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Women in Theater Journal Online Issue: July 25, 2018 Description: Originally premiering in 2015 at London’s Royal Court Theater, hang is a play which makes you laugh, or gasp, again, at human frailty, at human foolishness, and at the social and political arrangements and institutions which […]
What We Write About When We Write about the Death Penalty—A Review of Recent Books and Literature on Capital Punishment
Title: What We Write About When We Write about the Death Penalty—A Review of Recent Books and Literature on Capital Punishment Year: 1999 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 89, No. 2, pp. 751-770 Description: These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when […]