Welcome to the re-launch of a this blogging adventure. This blog started two years ago, with the uninspired title of Death Penalty Course @ Moritz College of Law, to facilitate student engagement in the Spring 2007 course on the death penalty that I taught at OSU's Moritz College of Law.
Though I formally closed this blog down not long after that course ended, I have been pleased to see all the students' hard work as reflected in the archives still generates significant traffic and much of the posts remain timely. Consequently, as I gear up for teaching Criminal Punishment & Sentencing in Spring 2009 at the Moritz College of Law, I decided to reboot this blog to allow the new course to build indirectly in this space on some of the materials covered before.
I was generally pleased with how this blog helped promote a new type of engagement with the death penalty and with on-line media with students in the 2007 class. (Even after nearly five years of focused blogging at my main blog, I continue to be amazed by what can be discovered through the process of blogging.) But because I did not assign a text in the Death Penalty Course, this blog was truly the focal point for reading materials in the 2007 course. We have a traditional text for our 2009 Criminal Punishment & Sentencing course, this blog likely will play a less fundamental role in course activities.
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Sentencing Class @ OSU Moritz College of Law 