Videos

The University of Virginia Federalist Society hosted a virtual debate on the death penalty with former federal prosecutor Bill Otis and Carol Steiker, a Harvard law professor and author of C…

Carol Steiker and Kent Scheidegger talked about the Supreme Court’s 1976 decision in Gregg v. Georgia, the landmark case concerning Troy Leon Gregg, a convicted armed robber and murderer who…

Panelists talked about the death penalty. Panelists included Jordan and Carol Steiker, co-authors of Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, and John Bessler, editor of Ste…

As part of a conference titled, “The American Prosecutor: Power, Discretion and Accountability,” the panelists talked about the role of U.S. prosecutors in charging individuals and plea barg…

Participants talked about the guidelines for federal judges concerning sentencing in the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. They focused on the need for freedom to eliminate disparities in sente…