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Michael Conklin

The Road Less Traveled: Abolishing the Death Penalty on Substantive Due Process, Fundamental Right to Life Grounds

Michael Conklin is a Powell Endowed Professor of Business Law at Angelo State University. In this review, Conklin critiques Kevin M. Barry’s recent article, The Death Penalty and the Fundamental Right to Life, which lays out an often-overlooked argument against the death penalty. Barry posits that the death penalty is unconstitutional, not on Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual punishment grounds, but on a theory …
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