Professor Bentele is a nationally recognized expert on death penalty issues. She has argued numerous death penalty appeals, and is the author of Capital Case Sentencing: How to Protect Your Client (1988). She is the recipient of the New York City Bar Association's Thurgood Marshall Award given to attorneys who have represented those sentenced to death. She recently participated in the Capital Jury Project funded by the National Science Foundation, in which she analyzed the findings of over 1,000 jurors who had participated in cases where a death sentence was possible. Among her recent articles on capital punishment are "Back to an International Perspective on the Death Penalty as a Cruel Punishment: The Example of South Africa," in the Tulane Law Review and "How Jurors Decide on Death: Guilt is Overwhelming; Aggravation Requires Death; and Mitigation is No Excuse" in the Brooklyn Law Review. Professor Bentele is also the author of Appellate Advocacy: Principles and Practice (3d. ed., 1998) (with E. Cary). She joined the faculty in 1981, after having served with the Legal Aid Society in its Criminal Defense Division and its Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit.
Articles
"Does the Death Penalty, by Risking Execution of the Innocent, Violate Substantive Due Process?", 40 Hous. L. Rev. 1359 (2004)
"How Jurors Decide on Death: Guilt is Overwhelming; Aggravation Requires Death; and Mitigation is No Excuse [Symposium: The Jury in the 21st Century: An Interdisciplinary Conference]" (with W.J. Bowers), 66 Brook. L. Rev. 1011 (2001)
"Back to an International Perspective on the Death Penalty as a Cruel Punishment: The Example of South Africa", 73 Tul. L. Rev. 251 (1998)
"Bill of Rights Redivivus: The Eighth Amendment Should be Interpreted to Stop Capital Punishment", 19 The Champion 10 (1995)
"Introduction [The Death Penalty in New York: Past, Present ... Future? The Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Forum]", 4 J. L. & Pol'y 73 (1995)
Books
Appellate Advocacy: Principles and Practice (with Eve Cray) (2004)
Appellate Advocacy: Principles and Practice (with Eve Cray) (1998)
Appellate Advocacy: Principles and Practice (with Eve Cray) (1995)
Appellate Advocacy: Principles and Practice (with Eve Cray) (1990)
Capital Case Sentencing: How to Protect Your Client , ABA Criminal Justice Section Monograph (1988)
Unpublished Papers
Mining for Gold: The Constitutional Court of South Africa's Experience with Comparative Constitutional Law, ExpressO (2008)
MINING FOR GOLD: THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA’S EXPERIENCE WITH COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
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