The past as prologue : the Supreme Court's pre-modern death penalty jurisprudence and its influence on the Supreme Court's modern death penalty decisions /
Bohm (criminal justice, U. of Central Florida) examines how the US Supreme Court's decisions about the death penalty before 1968 have influenced its opinion from then until 2009. Courts are supposed to be guided by previous decision when the same or similar points rise before them again--the do...
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Main Author: | Bohm, Robert M |
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Language: | English |
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Durham, N.C. :
Carolina Academic Press,
c2012
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