As I mentioned very briefly in class, the Fall 2012 issue of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law had a lead symposium focused on "McClesky at 25." Here are links to all the articles in the symposium:
McClesky at 25 OSJCL Symposium Articles:
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Douglas A. Berman, McCleskey at 25: Reexamining the “Fear of Too Much Justice" , 10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 1 (2012).
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Scott E. Sundby, The Loss of Constitutional Faith: McCleskey v. Kemp and the Dark Side of Procedure, 10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 5 (2012).
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John H. Blume & Sherri Lynn Johnson, Unholy Parallels between McCleskey v. Kemp and Plessy v. Ferguson: Why McCleskey (Still) Matters, 10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 37 (2012).
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G. Ben Cohen, McCleskey’s Omission: The Racial Geography of Retribution, 10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 65 (2012).
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Robert P. Mosteller, Responding to McCleskey and Batson: The North Carolina Racial Justice Act Confronts Racial Peremptory Challenges in Death Cases, 10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 103 (2012).
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Kent Scheidegger, Rebutting the Myths About Race and the Death Penalty, 10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 147 (2012).
Anyone interested in the intersection of race and the death penalty should consider taking a quick peak at all of these article. But, especially for future class discussion purposes, the final two pieces linked above (the long Mosteller piece and the short Scheidegger piece) may be most worth your extra reading time and attention.
Sentencing Class @ OSU Moritz College of Law 
2 responses to “Lots of interesting reflections on McClesky a quarter-century later”
And the “Unholy Parallels” article is just flat out good writing.
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I looked at the Scheidegger article, and it seems like he’s either making a profoundly important argument that changes the death penalty debate…or he’s totally wrong. His argument does not sound like anything I’ve ever heard before. As just one small example, I think a lot of people who pay attention to these issues would contest the fact that the death penalty serves a strong deterrence function.
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