New Scholarship on the Tribal Right to Object to the Death Penalty

Grant Christenson has published “The Wrongful Death of an Indian: A Tribe’s Right to Object to the Death Penalty” in the UCLA Law Review Discourse.

NYTs: “Most American Indian Tribes Opt Out of Federal Death Penalty”

Here.

An excerpt:

Tamera Begay, a Navajo woman, has studied the Mitchell case and agrees the tribe should steer clear of the death penalty. “There’s so much federal jurisdiction, that’s worrisome,” she said.