New of interest at SSRN

This chilly time of year usually produces a heating-up of scholarly drafts, and so I am not surprised to see all these new papers of interest at SSRN:

• International Consensus as Persuasive Authority in the Eighth Amendment Youngjae Lee

• The Innocent Prisoner's Dilemma: Consequences of Failing to Admit Guilt at Parole Hearings by Daniel S. Medwed

• Casting a Wider Net: Another Decade of Legislative Expansion of the Death Penalty in the United States Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier

• The Merciful State by Linda Ross Meyer

• Sentencing as Craftwork and the Binary Epistemologies of the Discretionary Decision Process by Cyrus Tata