Understanding capital punishment law /
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| Format: | Book |
| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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