TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Linda E.
AU  - Kreitzberg,Ellen
AU  - Howe,Scott W.
TI  - Understanding capital punishment law
SN  - 9781422423868 (pbk.)
AV  - KF9227.C2 C36 2008
U1  - 345.73/0773 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Newark, NJ
PB  - LexisNexis Matthew Bender
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0812/2008009626.html
ER  -