Mr. Palmer is a West Virginia Bar Foundation Fellow and the author of 19 legal books that include Organ Transplants From Executed Prisoners (2d ed. 2014); The Death Penalty in the United States: A Complete Guide to Federal and State Laws (2d ed. 2013); Encyclopedia of DNA and the United States Criminal Justice System (Reprint 2013); Handbook on the Rules of Civil Procedure for West Virginia Magistrate Courts (2010); Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States (2d ed. 2008); and Encyclopedia of Abortion in the United States (2d ed. 2008). He has also authored four law review articles. Mr. Palmer served on the Committee on the Revision of the West Virginia Rules of Evidence (2012–2013) and the Committee on the Revision of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure (2013).