Capital Punishment, Advanced: Race & the Death Penalty
Semester: Spring 2023
Course ID: 383G
Credit Hours: 3
Unique: 28930
Course Information
Grading Method:
Pass/Fail Not Allowed
Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Registration Information
Upperclass-only elective
Meeting Times
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TUE, THU
2:15 - 3:30 pm
TNH 3.125
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Description
This course will examine historic and contemporary issues of race and the death penalty within American law and jurisprudence. Through this course, students will learn substantive principles; study the growing body of critical legal scholarship covering the matter; and examine the potential (and limits) of the law. By the end of the course, students will be able to analyze the interplay between race and the death penalty; acquire tools to think critically about its legal framework and engage with the role of racialized identities in its use. Utilizing – among other things -- case law, statutory interpretation, statistical data, legal scholarship and legislative efforts, the course will undertake the project of grappling with a real-world example of the racialized nature of the death penalty.
Marcus, Jim 
Henderson, Shavonne