Understanding capital punishment law /
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| Language: | English |
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Newark, N.J. :
LexisNexis,
[2004]
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| Series: | Understanding series (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to capital punishment law
- The death penalty debate
- Sources of the law
- Challenges to the constitutionality of the death penalty
- Methods of execution
- Modern death penalty statutes
- The death penalty trial
- Categorical bars to the death penalty
- Overview of aggravating evidence: the eligibility function and the selection function
- Aggravating circumstances: eligibility of the case for the death penalty
- Aggravating evidence and the selection decision
- Selection process: mitigation
- Selection process: the life or death decision
- Direct appeals
- Postconviction proceedings: the writ of habeas corpus
- Ineffective assistance of counsel
- Innocence and the death penalty
- Clemency
- Death row issues: insanity and death row phenomenon
- Race and the death penalty
- Gender bias and the death penalty
- Volunteers: defendants who want to die
- International treaty rights in death penalty cases
- Future issues in capital punishment law.