Human Rights

The death penalty is a prime target for efforts to incorporate international law into American constitutional interpretation, said law professor Curtis Bradley in his opening remarks to the Cruel and Unusual Punishment panel at the J.B. Moore Society of International Law's March 20 symposium, "International Law and Practice in American Constitutionalism." Panelists discussed strategies capital punishment opponents are using to encourage limits to the death penalty in the United States, as well as how international law is increasingly affecting how the American legal system treats the issue.