Suggesting topics for capital commentary

I am trying an innovate approach to a final assignment in my Death Penalty Course this semester.  In lieu of a final exam, each student is required to prepare a “white paper” directed to a specific (real) decision-making official in a specific (real) jurisdiction.  As I explain here, my hope is that students will produce documents that not only justify blog posting, but also could be sent directly to officials in the jurisdiction being examined.

As noted in this post at my class blog, students this week have to decide select jurisdictions to examine.  There are, of course, many obvious current choices; at least a dozen states are in the midst of active and robust death penalty debates.  But I suspect readers of this blog might have some helpful and distinctive ideas about jurisdictions my students should examine.  Student-friendly comments to this post (or at my class blog) would be greatly appreciated.