Selected Essays
- “If Not the Parkland Shooter, Who Is the Death Penalty For?” The New York Times, (10/27/22)
- “A Poster Child for Us”, Judicature, (April 2006)
- “Among Killers Searching For the Worst of the Worst”, The Washington Post, (front page, Outlook) (3/12/00)
- “The Death Penalty as Delineated by the Old Testament”,USA Today Magazine, (November 2004) (Cover story)
- “Ancient Greece’s Death Penalty Dilemma and Its Influence on Modern Society”, USA Today Magazine, (July 2006)
- “When Guards Know Prisoners Too Well”, The The Washington Post (12/5/93)
- “Truth in the Iran-Contra Affair: Making the Constitution Work”, The National Law Journal, (12/7/98)
- “The Standards of Truth & Trust after the Iran-Contra Affair”, The National Law Journal (12/14/98)
- “A Verdict by Their Peers”,The Nation (10/3/87) (Reprinted in Baltimore Sun 11/87)
- “Haven or Hell? :Inside Lorton Central Prison: Experiences of Punishment Justified“,Stanford Law Review, pp. 1149-1249 (42 Stan. L. Rev. 1149) (1990)
- “If I Implore You and Order You to Set Me Free” (NYLS Law Rev. Vol. 49 Number 2) (Odysseus at the Mast as Root Constitutional Metaphor) (2004-2005)
- ”Killing Them Softly: Meditations on a Painful Punishment of Death” (Fordham Urban Law Journal XXXV No. 4 ) (2008)
- “But Did They Listen? The New Jersey Death Penalty Commission’s Exercise in Abolitionism” (Rutgers School of Law Journal of Law & Public Policy) (Vol. 5 Issue 1 – 2007) (SCAN)
- “ROOTS- Resolving the Death Penalty: Wisdom From the Ancients” (Acker et al,America’s Experiment with Capital Punishment (2nd edition) Carolina Academic Press, (2003) (SCAN)
- “Less than We Might: Meditations on Life without Parole”, Federal Sentencing Reporter Volume 23, Number 1, (October 2010)
- “Beyond 1984, Undercover in America: From Serpico to Abscam”, (NYLS Law Review 38, Volume xxxvvii, Number 4, (1984)
- “The Road Not Considered: Revising New Jersey’s Death Penalty Statute” (32 Seton Hall Legislative Journal #2 2008)
- “The Death Penalty: Where Are We now?” 46 NYLS Law Review 3-4 (2002-2003)
- “Policing the Police”,in Dennis Jay Kenney (ed), Police and Policing (Praeger Publishers,1989)
- “Bobby Fischer: A Great Future Behind Him”, Computer Chess Digest Annual: (1983) (rare, in depth interview