John H. Blume

Cornell Law School

Myron Taylor Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853-4901

United States

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Scholarly Papers (29)

1.

The Delaware Death Penalty: An Empirical Study

Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-24
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2022
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell University - School of Law and Cornell University - Law School
Downloads 1,612 (19,698)

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death penalty, capital punishment, race, juries, judges

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A Tale of Two (and Possibly Three) Atkins: Intellectual Disability and Capital Punishment Twelve Years after The Supreme Court's Creation of a Categorical Bar

William & Mary Bill of Rights, Vol. 23, 2014, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 9-294
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2015
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School, William & Mary Law School and Cornell Law School
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Atkins, Intellectually Disabled Defendants, Capital Punishment

3.

The Unexonerated: Factually Innocent Defendants Who Plead Guilty

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2013
John H. Blume and Rebecca Helm
Cornell Law School and University of Exeter - School of Law
Downloads 936 (43,558)

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unexonerated

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The Death Penalty: Should the Judge or the Jury Decide Who Dies?

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-02
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2015
Cornell University - School of Law, Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell University - Law School, Cornell Law School, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Law, Psychology and Human Development Program, Students and Cornell University - Law School
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Victim Gender and the Death Penalty

University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 2, 2014, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-05
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Law, Psychology and Human Development Program, Students, Cornell University - Law School, Cornell University - School of Law, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell University - Law School, Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
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Life, Death, and Neuroimaging: The Advantages and Disadvantages of The Defense’s Use of Neuroimages in Capital Cases - Lessons from the Front

Mercer Law Review, Vol. 62, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-18
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 01 Jun 2011
John H. Blume and Emily C. Paavola
Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
Downloads 452 (110,808)
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Death penalty, Capital cases, neuroimaging, tool, evidence

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Every Juror Wants a Story, Story: Narrative Relevance, Third Party Guilt and the Right to Present a Defense

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-042
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 07 Nov 2006
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
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Death by Numbers: Why Evolving Standards Compel Extending Roper’s Categorical Ban Against Executing Juveniles From 18 to 21

Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-17
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 28 May 2019 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Cornell Law School, Independent, Justice 360 and Cornell University - Law School
Downloads 387 (132,626)
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Death Penalty, Youth, Capital Punishment, Adolescence

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It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again: Williams v. Taylor, Wiggins v. Smith, Rompilla v. Beard and a (Partial) Return to the Guidelines Approach to the Effective Assistance of Counsel

American Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-019
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Oct 2007
John H. Blume
Cornell Law School
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Forty Years of Death: The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty in South Carolina (Or Still Arbitrary after All These Years)

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2016, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-8
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 21 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2016
John H. Blume and Lindsey Vann
Cornell Law School and Justice 360
Downloads 344 (150,973)

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Capital punishment, Death penalty, Criminal Procedure

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Mitigation Matters

Tell the Client's Story: Mitigation in Criminal and Death Penalty Cases (Edward Monahan & James Clark, editors; American Bar Association), 2017, ISBN: 978-1-63425-914-9, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-03
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2018
John H. Blume and Russell Stetler
Cornell Law School and Independent
Downloads 327 (159,409)

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mitigation, death penalty

12.

Convictions of Innocent People with Intellectual Disability

Albany Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Sheri Lynn Johnson, John H. Blume and Amelia Hritz
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
Downloads 315 (165,823)

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death penalty, intellectual disability, wrongful conviction

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The Dilemma of the Criminal Defendant With a Prior Record - Lessons from the Wrongfully Convicted

Journal of Empirical Studies, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-017
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2008
John H. Blume
Cornell Law School
Downloads 289 (181,538)
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Killing the Willing: 'Volunteers,' Suicide and Competency

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 15 Sep 2004
John H. Blume
Cornell Law School
Downloads 284 (184,787)
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The Death Penalty in Delaware: An Empirical Study

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-025, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Aug 2008
Cornell Law School, Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - School of Law
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Atkins v. Virginia at Twenty: Still Adaptive Deficits, Still in the Developmental Period

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper, Forthcoming, Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 19 Aug 2022
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School and Independent
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Atkins v. Virginia, Supreme Court, intellectual disability, disability, capital punishment, death penalty, execution, Eighth Amendment, state court, state legislature, constitutional ban

17.

How the 'Shackles' of Individual Ethics Prevents Structural Reform in the American Criminal Justice System

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Feb 2015
John H. Blume
Cornell Law School
Downloads 201 (258,094)

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Criminal procedure, plea bargaining, criminal justice reform

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Plea Bargaining and the Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel: Where the Rubber Hits the Road in Capital Cases

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-01
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 07 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2013
John H. Blume
Cornell Law School
Downloads 168 (302,153)

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Capital Cases

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Competent Capital Representation: The Necessity of Knowing and Heeding What Jurors Tell Us About Mitigation

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2008
John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson and Scott E. Sundby
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School and University of Miami School of Law
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In Defense of Non-Capital Habeas: A Response to Hoffman and King

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 101, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-13
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Feb 2011
John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson and Keir M. Weyble
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
Downloads 151 (330,599)

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When Empathy Bites Back: Cautionary Tales from Neuroscience for Capital Sentencing

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 85, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-39
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2016
Cornell Law School, Cornell University - Law School, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Law, Psychology and Human Development Program, Students and Cornell Law School
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Capital Punishment, Criminal Procedure, Death Penalty, Empathy, Neuroscience

22.

Dead Right: A Cautionary Capital Punishment Tale

Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2021, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-07
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 14 Feb 2022
Cornell University, Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
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execution, capital punishment, punishment, Roper v. Simmons, Atkins v. Virginia, Supreme Court, caselaw, Texas, Florida, death penalty, Supreme Court Doctrine

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Coming to Grips with the Ethical Challenges for Capital Post-Conviction Representation Posed by Martinez v. Ryan

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-07
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
John H. Blume and W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law School and Cornell University - School of Law
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If It Walks Like Systematic Exclusion and Quacks Like Systematic Exclusion: Follow-Up on Removal of Women and African-Americans in Jury Selection in South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997-2014

68 South Carolina Law Review 373, 2017
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Jun 2017
Ann Eisenberg, Amelia Hritz, Caisa Royer and John H. Blume
West Virginia University College of Law, Cornell University - Law School, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Law, Psychology and Human Development Program, Students and Cornell Law School
Downloads 76 (533,092)
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capital punishment, death penalty, empirical analysis, equal protection, jury selection, peremptory challenges, voir dire, race discrimination, gender discrimination, death qualification, Batson, South Carolina

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Forty Years of Death: The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty in South Carolina (Still Arbitrary after All These Years)

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-48
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 26 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2016
John H. Blume and Lindsey Vann
Cornell Law School and Justice 360
Downloads 56 (624,410)

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Racial Epithets in the Criminal Process

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2011, p. 755, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Mar 2013
John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson and Patrick Wilson
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School and Independent
Downloads 55 (629,624)

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death penalty, capital punishment, racial, race

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Quantifying Disparate Questioning of Black and White Jurors in Capital Jury Selection

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 21 (3) Forthcoming , Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-18
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Aug 2023
Anna Effenberger, John H. Blume and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Jurors, death penalty, Jury Pool, Supreme Court, Equal Protection Clause, Fourteenth Amendment, Disparate Questioning, Discrimination

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Ghosts of Executions Past: A Case Study of Executions in South Carolina in the Pre-Furman Era

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-04, Cornell Law Review, Vol. 107, No. 6, 2022
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Jan 2023
John H. Blume
Cornell Law School
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Trump Administration, death row, lethal injection, injunctions, United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court, pentobarbital sodium, constitutional attack

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Death by Expert: Cognitive Bias in the Diagnosis of Mild Intellectual Disability

Law & Psycology Review, Vol. 44, 2020
Posted: 29 Jul 2020
Amelia Hritz, Sheri Lynn Johnson and John H. Blume
Cornell University - Law School, Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School

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intellectual disability, death penalty, expert

Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 289
1.

An Empirical Look at Atkins vs. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-021, Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 76, 2009
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Sep 2009
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School and University of California, Irvine
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