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Postconviction Access to DNA Testing and Clemency as a "Fail-Safe": The Implications of Judicial Fidelity to the Legal Process Vision

Year: 2016 Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Court Challenges, Due Process, Innocence Types: Academic Articles Author: Sarah Lucy Cooper Source: Drake Law Review

Judging Remorse

Year: 2015 Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Mercy, Remorse Types: Academic Articles Author: Rocksheng Zhong Source: New York University Review of Law and Social Change

The Role of Mercy: Safeguarding Justice in Texas Through Clemency Reform

Year: 2015 Geographical Focus: National, State, Texas Subjects: Clemency Claims Types: Non-ABA Reports or Studies, State Information Author: Jared Tyler Source: Texas Appleseed & Texas Innocence Network

Why the Time to Start Thinking about Capital Clemency is Now

Year: 2015 Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Clemency Claims Types: CCRI Materials, Conference Materials, Historical Resources, PowerPoints, Training Materials Author: Laura Schaefer Source: Capital Clemency Resource Initiative (CCRI)

The Controversy of Clemency and Innocence in America

Year: 2014 Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Innocence Types: Academic Articles Author: Sarah Lucy Cooper, David Gough Source: California Western Law Review

The Geography of Mercy

Year: 2013 Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Clemency Claims, Mercy, Racial Discrimination Types: Academic Articles Author: Matthew C. Heise Source: Thurgood Marshall Law Review

Gubernatorial Clemency Powers: Justice or Mercy?

Year: 2009 Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Clemency Claims Types: ABA Reports and Assessments, Academic Articles, Clemency Publications Author: Kathleen Ridolfi and Seth Gordon Source: ABA Criminal Justice Magazine

Clemency and Consequences: State Governors and the Impact of Granting Clemency to Death-Row Inmates

Year: 2002 Geographical Focus: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, National, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia Subjects: Decision Makers, Intellectual Disability, Life Without Parole (LWOP), Mental Illness, Mercy, Proportionality to Crime, Proportionality to Other Sentences Types: ABA Reports and Assessments Author: Criminal Justice Section, Juvenile Justice Center Source: American Bar Association

Garza, Juan Paul Clemency Petition

Year: 2001 Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Future Dangerousness, Racial Discrimination Types: Petitions Author: Gregory W. Wiercioch, Bruce W. Gilchrist, & Audrey J. Anderson

Compendium of Standards for Indigent Defense: A Resource Guide for Practitioners and Policy Makers

Year: 2000 Geographical Focus: National Types: Guidelines and Standards, Historical Resources, Non-ABA Reports or Studies, State Information Author: U.S. Department of Justice

Executive Clemency in Post-Furman Capital Cases

Year: 1993 Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Childhood Trauma, Decision Makers, Intellectual Disability, Mercy, Proportionality to Other Sentences Types: Academic Articles Author: Michael L. Radelet & Barbara A. Zsembik Source: University of Richmond Law Review

Guide to Executive Clemency Among the American States

Year: 1988 Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Decision Makers Types: Historical Resources, State Information Author: National Governors' Association Source: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Correction

Chandler, David R. Clemency Petition

Geographical Focus: National Subjects: Counsel, Innocence, Trial Infirmity Types: Petitions, Successful Petitions Author: John R. Martin