Abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent death penalty jurisprudence displays the Court’s willingness to invalidate the death penalty for certain offenses or classes of offenders, including those with mental retardation and those who were under eighteen at the time of the offense. The Court has noted that the death penalty in these cases constitutes...
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Professor Winick will be a guest-speaker at a Conference hosted by the UNL Law-Psychology Progra at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln titled “Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: Responsibility, Punishment, and Competence.” Professor Winick’s talk is entitled “Determining When Serious Mental Illness Should Disqualify a Defendant from Capital Punishment.” Abstract: In Atkins v. Virginia, the...
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Professor Winick spoke at the Annual Capital Cases Death Penalty Seminar held in Orlando by the Commission on Capital Cases of the Florida Legislature.
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Professor Winick spoke as a member of a panel discussing the juvenile death penalty at a program held by the University of Miami School of Law’s Center for Ethics and Public Service. He discussed Developmental Psychology and the Juvenile Death Penalty.
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