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Michael L. Radelet

Professor and Chair
Ketchum 219, 303.735.5811

Professor Radelet's Vitae

 


Research Interests:
Criminology, Deviance, Capital Punishment, Societal Reactions to Crime, Deviance, and Crime Victims.

Recent Publications:

“Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates? The Views of Leading Criminologists,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 99 (2009): 489-508 (MLR and Traci L. Lacock).

“The Role of the Innocence Argument in Contemporary Death Penalty Debates,” Texas Tech Law Review 41 (2008): 199-220.

"Race, Gender, Region and Death Sentencing in Colorado, 1980-1999," University of Colorado Law Review 77 (2006):549-594 (Stephanie Hindson, Hillary Potter, and MLR).

"The Impact of Legally Inappropriate Factors on Death Sentencing for California Homicides, 1990-99," Santa Clara Law Review 46 (2005): 1-47(Glenn Pierce and MLR).

Capital Punishment in Colorado, 1859-1972." University of Colorado Law Review, 74(2003): 885-1010.

Special issue editor, Judicature, for special issue on Miscarriages of Justice (vol. 86, No.2, Sept.-Oct. 2002).

"Race, Region, and Death Sentencing in Illinois, 1988-1997." Oregon Law Review 81 (2002): 39-96 (Glenn L. Pierce and MLR).

"More Trends Toward Moratoria on Executions." Connecticut Law Review 33 (2001): 845-60.

"Humanizing the Death Penalty." Social Problems 48 (2001): 83-7.

 

FLORIDA DEATH CASES WHERE NON-STATUTORY MITIGATORS WERE FOUND
A Chronological List, by Date of Sentence
This update: 08/24/09. PDF

CASES WHERE JUDGE IMPOSED LIFE AFTER JURY RECOMMENDED DEATH
Radelet & Mello, Death-To-Life Overrides: Saving the Resources of the Florida Supreme Court, 20 Florida State University Law Review 195 (1992). PDF
Update to the above (September 7, 2009). DOC