Capital punishment and the judicial process /
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| Language: | English |
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Durham, N.C. :
Carolina Academic Press,
2001
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
| Series: | Carolina Academic Press law casebook series
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Table of Contents:
- The great debate over capital punishment
- Eighth amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment
- Early constitutional challenges to the death penalty
- Race, gender and sexual orientation
- Constitutional limitations on death eligibility
- Selecting the capital jury
- The role of aggravating circumstances
- The role of mitigating circumstances
- The sentencing phase of capital cases
- Use of psychiatric experts in capital cases
- Assistance of counsel
- Stays of execution and state post-conviction relief proceedings
- Introduction to federal habeas corpus review
- State barriers to federal habeas review
- Retroactivity
- Presumption of correctness
- Successive habeas corpus petitions, abuse of the writ, and clemency
- The federal death penalty
- International law and the death penalty