We take seriously our role as a resource center for legal professionals and for the public. This page provides handbooks, articles, reports, studies, and other materials prepared by Justice 360 attorneys and staff.
For more resources or consultation on death penalty cases, please contact us at: lindsey@justice360sc.org. For more resources or consultation on cases involving juvenile life without parole cases, please contact us at: juvenilejustice@justice360sc.org.
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Articles
Death by Numbers
Why Evolving Standards Compel Extending Roper's Categorical Ban Against Executing Juveniles from Eighteen to Twenty-One
A Tale of Two (and Possibly Three) Atkins
Intellectual Disability and Capital Punishment Twelve Years After the Supreme Court's Creation of a Categorical Bar
Life, Death, and Neuroimaging
The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Defense's Use of Neuroimages in Capital Cases
When Lightning Strikes Back
South Carolina's Return to the Unconstitutional, Standardless Capital Sentencing Regime of the Pre-Furman Era
The Dance of Death
(Almost) "No One Here Gets Out Alive": The Fourth Circuit's Capital Punishment Jurisprudence
Crime Labs and Prison Guards
A Comment on Melendez-Diaz and its Potential Impact on Capital Sentencing Proceedings
Handbooks
Objection Handbook: Preserving Your Criminal Trial Objections for Appellate Review
Including Objections Specifically Related to Capital and Juvenile LWOP Cases
Eighth Amendment Handbook
An Overview of Constitutional Principles Relevant to Capital Cases in South Carolina
Reports
Mental Disability & the Death Penalty
Why South Carolina Should Ban the Execution of the Severely Mentally Disabled
