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245 14 $aThe Supreme Court and capital punishment :$bjudging death /$cMichael E. Parrish.
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490 1 $aThe Supreme Court's power in American politics series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 446-449) and index.
505 0 $a1. Before Moore v. Dempsey : judging death, 1789-1923 -- American Federalism and the limits of judicial intervention -- The first Eighth Amendment case -- Weems and the future of the Eighth Amendment -- The Bill of Rights, Federalism, and the states -- The court limits the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment -- The limits of Ex Post Facto claims -- Reaffirming the limits of the Fourteenth Amendment -- Cruel and unusual punishment -- The ordeal of Leo Frank -- Saving the Elaine Six -- Documents: Justice Nathan Clifford examines the meaning of the eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in Wilkerson v. Utah, March 17, 1879 -- An account of the execution of Wallace Wilkerson, May 23, 1879 -- The Supreme Court reverses the Philippine Court, ruling that penalties imposed violate Eighth Amendment, May 2, 1910 -- Ratification of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, July 9, 1868 -- Justice Samuel Miller on the application of the Fourteenth Amendment in the Slaughterhouse cases, April 14, 1873 -- The Supreme Court orders James J. Medley freed after ruling Colorado statute unconstitutional in In Re Medley, March 3, 1890 -- The court rules that grand juries are not a constitutional right in Capital Cases, March 3, 1884 -- The Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of electrocution, May 23, 1890 -- "Far worse than hanging" : the execution of William Kemmler, August 6, 1890 -- A response to the botched execution of William Kemmler, September 5, 1890 -- Justice William Moody explores the applicability of Constitutional protections to the states in Twining v. New Jersey, November 9, 1908 -- The Kansas City Star investigates the Leo Frank Trial, January 17, 1915 -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes sharply criticizes the Court's ruling and the due process violations during the trial of Leo Frank, April 19, 1915 -- Georgia Governor John M. Slaton commutes Leo Frank's death sentence, June 21, 1915 -- Circuit Court denies new trial for Phillips County "rioters," December 27, 1919 -- The Supreme Court overturns a State Capital case on the due process grounds in Moore v. Dempsey, February 18, 1923.
505 0 $a2. The road to Furman : the due process revolution, 1923-1972 -- The crucible of race -- Scottsboro: round two -- The limits of Powell and Norris -- Due process and coerced confessions -- Cardozo and the limits of due process -- The ordeal of Willie Francis -- Debating incorporation again -- Due process and insanity pleas -- The Warren Court revolution -- The Court retreats -- Documents: Hollace Ransdell reports for the ACLU on the Scottsboro, Alabama case, May 1931 -- Justice George Sutherland rules on the denial of the Right of Counsel in Powell v. Alabama, November 7, 1932 -- Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, in Norris v. Alabama, discusses the exclusion of African Americans from juries, April 1, 1935 -- Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes rules on the inadmissibility of coerced confessions in State criminal trials, February 17, 1936 -- The Supreme court applies the Sixth amendment's Confrontation Clause to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, January 8, 1934 -- Justice Benjamin Cardozo rejects the claim that the Double Jeopardy Clause applies to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, December 6, 1937 -- The Supreme Court on the constitutionality of sending Willie Francis back to the electric chair, January 13, 1947 -- Justice Felix Frankfurter reviews Georgia's system for determining the sanity of the accused, February 20, 1950 -- Justice Arthur Goldberg examines the constitutionality of Capital Punishment in cases of rape, October 21, 1963 -- The law firm of Jenner & Block discusses its client, William Witherspoon, and the case of Witherspoon v. Illinois, Fall 2001 -- The Arkansas Supreme Court makes its case on the exclusion of jurors based on the jurors' view of Capital Punishment, May 5, 1969 -- The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the National Office for the Rights of the Indigent broadly attack the death penalty on behalf of Edward Boykin, October term 1968 -- Distinguished lawyers file Amicus Curiae brief in opposition to single-verdict procedures in Capital Cases, October term 1968 -- The Supreme Court examines due process and the death penalty in McGautha v. California, May 3, 1971.
505 0 $a3. The court and popular opinion : moratorium and reinstatement, 1972-1976 -- The Warren Justices and the idea of progress -- Confronting the McGaugtha roadblock -- The Eighth Amendment as equal protection -- Always cruel and unusual -- Abhorrent to currently existing moral values -- "Wantonly and so freakishly imposed" -- Not intolerably cruel or uncivilized -- "The impoverished and underprivileged elements in society" -- The death penalty revisited, July 2, 1976 -- The Stewart-Powell-Stevens trio -- The Florida or Texas alternatives -- "Simply papered over" -- The July 2 cases and the future -- Documents: Brief filed on behalf of William Henry Furman by his attorneys, September 9, 1971 -- Brief filed on behalf of the synagogue Council of America and its constituents and the American Jewish Congress in Furman v. Georgia, September 9, 1971 -- The Supreme court declares existing death penalty statutes unconstitutional, but five justices in the majority cannot agree on the grounds, June 29, 1972 -- Five justices endorse the Per Curiam in Furman, June 29, 1971 -- Four justices dissent in Furman v. Georgia, June 29, 1972 -- California's Supreme court declares that the death penalty violates California's Constitution, February 18, 1972 -- Californians respond to State Court's decision on death penalty with Proposition 17, November 7, 1972 -- State Senator H.L. Richardson writes in favor of restoring California's death penalty, October 31, 1972 -- Anthony Amsterdam writes in opposition to California's Proposition 17, November 4, 1972 -- President Richard Nixon urges restoration of the Federal Death Penalty, March 14, 1973 -- The Supreme court upholds the revised death penalty statutes in Gregg v. Georgia, July 2, 1976 -- Georgia's revised Capital Punishment Statute, 1976 -- The Supreme Court upholds the revised Florida statute on capital punishment in Proffitt v. Florida, July 2, 1976 -- The Supreme Court upholds the revised Texas death penalty statute in Jurek v. Texas, July 2, 1976 -- North Carolina adopts Mandatory Death Penalty Statute, 1974 -- The Supreme Court in Woodson v. North Carolina claims that mandatory death penalty statutes constitute cruel and unusual punishment, July 2, 1976.
505 0 $a4. Delegating death : the White-Rehnquist court, 1976-1989 -- "Let's do it" -- The balance of power -- Narrowing the death eligible: rape -- Taking mitigation seriously -- Rebalancing aggravation and mitigation -- Felony murder -- New procedural protections -- Rehnquist's complaint -- The tide turns -- Georgia and Florida revisited -- Disciplining the Ninth Circuit -- More executions, more limits -- The Rehnquist Era begins -- Revisiting race -- The Rehnquist-White Court -- Documents: Norman Mailer recounts the execution of Gary Gilmore, 1979 -- The Supreme Court denies stay of execution for John Spenkelink, May 22, 1979 -- The Supreme Court strikes down the death penalty in cases of rape of adult women in Coker v. Georgia, June 29, 1977 -- The Supreme Court decides that states may not limit mitigating evidence in capital cases, July 3, 1978 -- The Supreme Court requires individualized consideration of mitigating factors in Eddings v. Oklahoma, January 18, 1982 -- The Supreme Court overturns felony murder sentence as cruel and unusual punishment, July 2, 1982 -- The case of Coleman v. Balkcom yields lively debate on the Supreme Court regarding death penalty appeals, April 27, 1981 -- The justices reverse California Supreme Court on Eighth amendment, July 6, 1983 -- The Supreme Court reprimands Ninth Circuit on the execution of Robert Harris, April 21, 1992 -- California executes Robert Alton Harris after long legal battle, April 22, 1992 -- The Supreme Court decides the Eighth Amendment bars execution of the insane, June 26, 1986 -- Baldus Study on Race and the Death Penalty in Georgia -- Justices reject statistical study on racial disparities in death penalty cases, April 22, 1987 -- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on executing the mentally retarded, June 26, 1989 -- The Supreme court rules that states may execute juvenile murderers in Stanford v. Kentucky, June 26, 1989.
505 0 $a5. Tinkering with the machinery : limiting death, reaffirming death, 1989-2009 -- Abstention and intervention -- O'Connor's defection -- Effective counsel -- Kennedy's reconsideration -- End of the Rehnquist Era -- Beyond the Court -- A fatal cocktail -- Capital punishment and child rape -- The challenges of implementing the death penalty -- Documents: Congress limits Federal Habeas Corpus appeals, April 24, 1996 -- The justices debate "actual innocence" and the death penalty, January 25, 1993 -- Justice Harry Blackmun and Justice Antonin Scalia debate the death penalty in Callins v. Collins, February 22, 1994 -- The Supreme Court in Atkins v. Virginia bans execution of the mentally retarded, June 20, 2002 -- The Supreme Court rules that the Eighth Amendment prohibits imposition of the death penalty on persons under eighteen, March 1, 2005 -- Illinois governor George Ryan commutes 167 death sentences, January 11, 2003 -- The justices debate Kansas death penalty statute, April 25, 2006 -- The Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of lethal injection in Baze v. Rees, April 16, 2008 -- New Jersey Commission recommends abolition of death penalty, January 2, 2007 -- New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine on the State's repeal of the death penalty, December 17, 2009 -- New Mexico abolishes the death penalty, March 18, 2009 -- New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signs repeal of the death penalty, March 18, 2009 -- Nebraska Supreme Court declares electric chair cruel and unusual punishment, February 8, 2008.
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