Sentencing Class @ OSU Moritz College of Law

The full McGautha and Furman...

are worth reading in full if you final constitutional history and/or death penalty procedure really interesting.

The full McGautha can be found here; reading just the majority opinion authored by Justice Harlan (which is only 1/4 of the whole thing) is encouraged, but not required, for having extra fun throughout next week's discussion.

The full Furman can be found here; reading the whole thing could take you the rest of the semester, and our casebook aspires to provide strategic highlights from each of the nine(!) opinions.  I will ask you in class to think about which of the nine opinions you would be most likely to join, so you might want to read the full version of the one opinion you find most appealing from our casebook.

UPDATE:  In addition to continuing our discussion of capital constitutional history in this coming week, we will migrate to a discussion of how capital punishment is now administered.  That will, of course, take us back to a discussion of "who sentences," and it also will perhaps have us focused on our own state of Ohio which now is scheduled to have the next US execution.  With Ohio and who in mind, folks might be interested in this recent post from my other blog:

Are Governors considering capital clemency inclined to give great weight to capital jurors calling for a commutation?