Death Penalty Advocacy
See also: Capital punishment in OregonMarquis coauthored Debating the Death Penalty, and numerous other articles that were cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his concurrence in the Supreme Court's decision in Kansas v. Marsh. Marquis worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal in the early 1980s and the speechwriter to California Attorney General John Van de Kamp in the mid-1980s.
Marquis authors a blog which features a list of published articles and commentaries, including book reviews commissioned by the Wall Street Journal of Sebastian Junger's A Death in Belmont and John Grisham's The Innocent Man.
Marquis is often solicited to write articles on the death penalty, such as the lead article in a special section published by the Los Angeles Times prior to the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams.
In October 2011 Marquis was one of four panelists invited to discuss capital punishment at the New Yorker Festival on a panel that also included Innocence Project founder Barry Scheck,death penalty opponent Danalynn Recer, and crime victim's advocate Marc Klass. CNN's Jeffrey Toobin moderated the event at the Directors Guild Theater in Manhattan, New York City.
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