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A Tribute To Professor Willie Moore, Okianer Christian Dark
A Tribute To Professor Willie Moore, Okianer Christian Dark
University of Richmond Law Review
I first met Professor Willie Moore during the 1989-90 recruitment season for law faculty. Willie came to our law school to meet with the Dean, faculty and students. There was much excitement among the faculty concerning his visit to the law school. Many persons had already reviewed his credentials - valedictorian of his high school class; an honors graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; graduate of Yale University Law School; law clerk to Judge Damon J. Keith on the Federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; former associate at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp in Los …
Executive Clemency In Post-Furman Capital Cases, Michael L. Radelet, Barbara A. Zsembik
Executive Clemency In Post-Furman Capital Cases, Michael L. Radelet, Barbara A. Zsembik
University of Richmond Law Review
In the 1972 case of Furman v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court invalidated virtually all existing death penalty statutes in the United States. Consequently, those jurisdictions that wanted to continue to execute were forced to revise their capital sentencing procedures. Since Furman,nearly all aspects of American death penalty law have been rewritten. Left unchanged by both the courts and the legislatures, however, are the ways in which states decide which death-sentenced inmates will have their sentences commuted through the powers of executive clemency.