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19 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 431 (2016-2017)
Time, Death, and Retribution

handle is hein.journals/upjcl19 and id is 439 raw text is: TIME, DEATH, AND RETRIBUTION Chad Flanders* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRO DU CTIO N ............................................................................. 431 I. DISSECTING THE LACKEYMEMO ................................................ 438 A. The Two Lackey Claims .................................................. 439 B. Does it Matter if the Inmate Is Responsible for the Delay? ...... 444 C. A Third Lackey Claim? .................................................. 448 II. Two VERSIONS OF RETRIBUTION ............................................ 454 A. Community Outrage Retribution ...................................... 456 B. Intrinsic Desert Retribution .............................................. 462 C. Dying in Prison .............................................................. 466 III. IS RETRIBUTION A LEGITIMATE STATE PURPOSE? .................. 469 A. Purposes of Punishment and the Supreme Court ................. 471 B. Retribution as Establishment ............................................ 474 C. Retribution as Animus .................................................... 479 C O N CLU SIO N ................................................................................. 482 INTRODUCTION Even before Justice John Paul Stevens wrote his so-called Lackey memo' prisoners on death row were asserting that the lengthy delays-many times Associate Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law. Thanks to Will Baude and Joe Welling for comments on early drafts. Joe was also extremely helpful in correcting and fleshing out many of the footnotes. I am also grateful for comments at the New Voices in Legal Theory workshop at Loyola University-New Orleans, especially those from Eric Miller, Ekow Yankah, and Sari Kisilevsky. Russell Christopher provided me with several pages of written comments. I do not hope to address them all, although (especially) in Section II.C. I try my best to. Stephen Galoob, in the course of a lengthy phone-call, pointed out many deficiencies in an earlier draft. All errors are my own.

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