Franklin Zimring quoted in The Huffington Post Crime Blog, June 11, 2012
Franklin E. Zimring … co-authored the chapter with David T. Johnson…. The professors discussed “four latent impacts of attempts to revive and rationalize the death penalty in the United States.” Their work explained that an enduring legacy of the American resurgence of capital punishment was that it helped to take the focus off of other areas of the criminal justice system, and in the process, eviscerated protections against governmental excess.