John H. Blume

Publications

• The Youth Tax in Parole Hearings
  75 S. C. L. REV. (2024) · South Carolina Law Review · 2024
• <em>Atkins v. Virginia</em> at Twenty: Still Adaptive Deficits, Still in the Developmental Period
  29 WASH. & LEE. J. C. R. & SOC. JUST. 55 (2022) · Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice · 2022

• Protecting People with Intellectual Disability from Wrongful Execution: Guidelines for Competent Representation
  46 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2018) · Hofstra Law Review · 2018
• If Its 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 S. C. L. REV. (2017) · South Carolina Law Review · 2017
• The Pre-Furman Juvenile Death Penalty in South Carolina: Young Black Life Was Cheap
  68 S. C. L. REV. (2017) · South Carolina Law Review · 2017
• Forty Years of Death: The Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty in South Carolina (Still Arbitrary After All These Years)
  11 DUKE J. CONST. L. & PUB. POL'Y 183 (2016) · Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2016
• When Empathy Bites Back: Cautionary Tales from Neuroscience for Capital Sentencing
  85 FORDHAM L. REV. 573 (2016) · Fordham Law Review · 2016
• Coming to Grips With the Ethical Challenges For Capital Post-Conviction Representation Posed by <i>Martinez v. Ryan</i>
  68 FLA. L. REV. 765 (2016) · Florida Law Review · 2016
• 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
  23 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 393 (2014) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2014
• The Unexonerated: Factually Innocent Defendants Who Plead Guilty
  100 CORNELL L. REV. 157 (2014) · Cornell Law Review · 2014
• Gideon Exceptionalism?
  122 YALE L.J. 2126 (2013) · Yale Law Journal · 2013
• Convicting Lennie: Mental Retardation, Wrongful Convictions, and the Right to a Fair Trial
  56 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 944 (2012) · NYLS Law Review · 2012
• In Defense of Noncapital Habeas: A Response to Hoffmann and King
  96 CORNELL L. REV. 435 (2011) · Cornell Law Review · 2011
• Unwell: Indiana v. Edwards and the Fate of Mentally Ill Pro Se Defendants
  21 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 151 (2011) · Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy · 2011
• Life, Death, and Neuroimaging: The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Defense's Use of Neuroimages in Capital Cases -Lessons from the Front
  62 MERCER L. REV. (2011) · Mercer Law Review · 2011
• The Dance of Death or (Almost) No One Here Gets out Alive: The Fourth Circuit's Capital Punishment Jurisprudence
  61 S. C. L. REV. (2010) · South Carolina Law Review · 2010

• Of Atkins and Men: Deviations from Clinical Definitions of Mental Retardation in Death Penalty Cases
  18 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 689 (2009) · Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy · 2009
• Competent Capital Representation: The Necessity of Knowing and Heeding What Jurors Tell Us about Mitigation
  36 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2008) · Hofstra Law Review · 2008
• AEDPA: The Hype and the Bite
  91 CORNELL L. REV. 259 (2006) · Cornell Law Review · 2006
• Education and Interrogation: Comparing Brown and Miranda
  90 CORNELL L. REV. 321 (2005) · Cornell Law Review · 2005
• Reliability Matters: Reassociating Bagley Materiality, Strickland Prejudice, and Cumulative Harmless Error
  95 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 1153 (2005) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2005
• Killing the Willing: "Volunteers," Suicide and Competency
  103 MICH. L. REV. 939 (2005) · Michigan Law Review · 2005
• Ten Years of Payne: Victim Impact Evidence in Capital Cases
  88 CORNELL L. REV. 257 (2003) · Cornell Law Review · 2003
• Killing the Non-Willing: Atkins, the Volitionally Incapacitated and the Death Penalty
  55 S. C. L. REV. (2003) · South Carolina Law Review · 2003
• Twenty-Five Years of Death: A Report of the Cornell Death Penalty Project on the "Modern" Era of Capital Punishment in South Carolina
  54 S. C. L. REV. (2002) · South Carolina Law Review · 2002
• Future Dangerousness in Capital Cases: Always at Issue
  86 CORNELL L. REV. 397 (2001) · Cornell Law Review · 2001
• Probing "Life Qualification" Through Expanded Voir Dire
  29 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2001) · Hofstra Law Review · 2001
• Don't Take His Eye, Don't Take His Tooth, and Don't Cast the First Stone: Limiting Religious Arguments in Capital Cases
  9 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 61 (2000) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2000

• The Fourth Circuit's "Doube-Edged Sword": Eviscerating the Right to Present Mitigating Evidence and Beheading the Right to the Assistance of Counsel
  58 MD. L. REV. 1480 (1999) · Maryland Law Review · 1999
• Post-McCleskey Racial Discrimination Claims in Capital Cases
  83 CORNELL L. REV. 1771 (1998) · Cornell Law Review · 1998
• Death by Default: State Procedural Default Doctrine in Captial Cases
  50 S. C. L. REV. (1998) · South Carolina Law Review · 1998
• An Introduction to Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure
  47 S. C. L. REV. (1996) · South Carolina Law Review · 1996
• An Introduction to Post-Conviction Remedies, Practice and Procedure in South Carolina
  45 S. C. L. REV. (1994) · South Carolina Law Review · 1994
• Harmless Error in Federal Habeas Corpus After Brecht v. Abrahamson
  35 WM. & MARY L. REV. 163 (1993) · William & Mary Law Review · 1993

• Racial Discrimination in the State's Use of Peremptory Challenges: The Application of the United States Supreme Court's Decision in Batson v. Kentucky in South Carolina
  40 S. C. L. REV. (1989) · South Carolina Law Review · 1989