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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.

We are constantly working to expand the list of available materials. If you have suggestions, please let us know.


Articles

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Death by Numbers

Why Evolving Standards Compel Extending Roper's Categorical Ban Against Executing Juveniles from Eighteen to Twenty-One
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Forty Years of Death: The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty in SC cover

Forty Years of Death: The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty in SC

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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
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Racial Epithets in the Criminal Process

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Life, Death, and Neuroimaging

The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Defense's Use of Neuroimages in Capital Cases
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When Lightning Strikes Back

South Carolina's Return to the Unconstitutional, Standardless Capital Sentencing Regime of the Pre-Furman Era
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The Dance of Death

(Almost) "No One Here Gets Out Alive": The Fourth Circuit's Capital Punishment Jurisprudence
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Survival Skills for Post-Conviction Practice

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Crime Labs and Prison Guards

A Comment on Melendez-Diaz and its Potential Impact on Capital Sentencing Proceedings
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Every Juror Wants A Story

Narrative Relevance, Third Party Guilt and the Right to Present a Defense
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History Repeats Itself

The Post-Furman Return to Arbitrariness in Capital Punishment
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Handbooks

Objection Handbook: Preserving Your Criminal Trial Objections for Appellate Review cover

Objection Handbook: Preserving Your Criminal Trial Objections for Appellate Review

Including Objections Specifically Related to Capital and Juvenile LWOP Cases
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Statement Handbook

Questions To Ask About The Admissibility Of A Criminal Defendant’s Statements
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Eighth Amendment Handbook

An Overview of Constitutional Principles Relevant to Capital Cases in South Carolina
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Reports

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2019 Annual Report

Report on SC Death Penalty & Juvenile Extreme Sentencing
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Fact Sheet (as of 3/11/2020)

The Death Penalty in South Carolina
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2016 Justice 360 Annual Report

South Carolina Death Penalty, 2016
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South Carolina Death Penalty, 2015 Year End Report

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2015 Organizational Highlights

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Mental Disability & the Death Penalty

Why South Carolina Should Ban the Execution of the Severely Mentally Disabled
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Race & Capital Punishment

The Need for a Racial Justice Act in South Carolina
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