An edition of Understanding capital punishment
(2008)
Understanding capital punishment
2nd ed.
by Linda E. Carter
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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
Legal challenges to methods of execution
Modern death penalty statutes
The death penalty trial
Overview of categorical bars to the death penalty
Overview of aggravati
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.
Edition Notes
Rev. ed of: Understanding capital punishment law. c2004.
Includes index.
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