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题名/责任者:

Understanding capital punishment law / Linda E. Carter, Ellen S. Kreitzberg, Scott W. Howe.

版本说明:

3rd ed.

出版发行项:

New Providence, NJ : LexisNexis, 2012.

ISBN:

9780769849027 (pbk.)

ISBN:

9781422486474 (ebk.)

载体形态项:

xix, 485, 8, 5, 7 p. ; 25 cm.

丛编说明:

The understanding series

个人责任者:

Carter, Linda E.

附加个人名称:

Kreitzberg, Ellen.

附加个人名称:

Howe, Scott W.

论题主题:

Capital punishment-United States.

中图法分类号:

D971.24

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

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 -- Postconviction 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 -- Military death penalty -- The death penalty in a global context -- Evolving attitudes on capital punishment : the move away from the death penalty -- Future issues in capital punishment law.

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