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| David C. Baldus NY Times photo |
The New Jersey Supreme Court appointed him a special master to conduct a "proportionality review". Ultimately New Jersey repealed the death penalty in 2007.
Reflecting on proportionality review - the effort to assure that like cases are treated alike - retired Chief Justice Deborah Poritz (who oversaw the effort) acknowledged at a conference at Seton Hall Law School that it proved" impossible" to eliminate the arbitrariness in the imposition of the death penalty. As Associate Justice Barry Albin observed - the killers languishing on death row could not be meaningfully distinguished from those serving terms of 25 years to life in prison. - GWC
David C. Baldus dies at 75 - studied race and the law - NY Times: Reflecting on proportionality review - the effort to assure that like cases are treated alike - retired Chief Justice Deborah Poritz (who oversaw the effort) acknowledged at a conference at Seton Hall Law School that it proved" impossible" to eliminate the arbitrariness in the imposition of the death penalty. As Associate Justice Barry Albin observed - the killers languishing on death row could not be meaningfully distinguished from those serving terms of 25 years to life in prison. - GWC
"David C. Baldus, whose pioneering research on race and the death penalty came within a vote of persuading the Supreme Court to make fundamental changes in the capital justice system, died on Monday at his home in Iowa City. He was 75.
The cause was complications of colon cancer, his wife, Joyce C. Carman, said."
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