| Description |
xxix, 723 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Eighth amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment -- The great debate over capital punishment -- Early constitutional challenges to the death penalty -- Race, gender and the death penalty -- 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 -- The application of state procedural bars in federal habeas corpus -- Retroactivity -- Presumption of correctness -- Successive habeas corpus petitions and abuse of the writ -- The federal death penalty -- International law and the death penalty. |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States.
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Capital punishment. |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Entzeroth, Lyn.
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| ISBN |
0890895813 |
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