Of course, there are several books for that. But many people don’t have the time to read them, or don’t want to pay for them, or both.
But there is something which is short, incisive, free and online that everyone can read: judicial opinions.
One can read:
– Justice Antonin Scalia concurring opinions in:
Baze v. Rees (2008): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-5439.ZC2.html
Glossip v. Gross (2015): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremec...-7955_CONCUR_4
– Justice Clarence Thomas concurring opinions in:
Knight v. Florida (1999): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-9741.ZA.html (on the claim that lengthy delays between death sentence and execution allow the convict to be not executed at all)
Glossip v. Gross (2015): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremec...-7955_CONCUR_5
– The Supreme Court of Japan 1983 ruling in the Nagayama case, which is currently applied by Japanese courts when the prosecution pursues the death penalty.
Their official website has an English translation:
https://www.courts.go.jp/app/hanrei_en/detail?id=74
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