Understanding capital punishment law /
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| Language: | English |
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New Providence, NJ :
LexisNexis,
2012
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| Edition: | 3rd ed |
| Series: | Understanding series (New York, N.Y.)
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| 246 | 3 | 4 | |a Understanding capital punishment |
| 250 | |a 3rd ed | ||
| 260 | |a New Providence, NJ : |b LexisNexis, |c 2012 | ||
| 300 | |a 1 v. (various pagings) ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Understanding series | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction to capital punishment law -- The death penalty debate -- Sources of 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 -- 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 and the use of foreign law in death penalty cases -- The federal death penalty -- Military death penalty -- The death penalty in a global context -- Evolving attitudes on capital punishment : the move away from the death penalty -- Future issues in capital punishment law | |
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