Understanding capital punishment law /
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| Language: | English |
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Newark, NJ :
LexisNexis Matthew Bender,
2008
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| Edition: | 2nd ed |
| Series: | Understanding series (New York, N.Y.)
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| 100 | 1 | |a Carter, Linda E | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Understanding capital punishment law / |c Linda E. Carter, Ellen S. Kreitzberg, Scott W. Howe |
| 250 | |a 2nd ed | ||
| 260 | |a Newark, NJ : |b LexisNexis Matthew Bender, |c 2008 | ||
| 300 | |a xviii, 369, [15] p. ; |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 -- Post conviction 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 -- Future issues in capital punishment law | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Capital punishment |z United States | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Kreitzberg, Ellen | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Howe, Scott W | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Understanding series (New York, N.Y.) | |
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| 852 | |a Law Library |b Third Floor |h KF9227 .C2 .C36 2008 |p 33940003519038 | ||