| Description |
xii, 340 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Overviews and critiques of the capital punishment system: The problem of capital punishment / John Kaplan ; The death penalty once more / Ernest van den Haag ; Against the American system of capital punishment / Jack Greenberg ; The crisis in capital punishment / Charles L. Black, Jr. ; The death penalty in the legislature : some thoughts about money, myth, and morality -- pt. 2. Views from Supreme Court justices: Decalring the death penalty unconstitutional / Arthur J. Goldberg and Alan M. Dershowitz ; Constitutional adjudication and the death penalty : a view from the Court / William J. Brennan, Jr. ; Remarks on the death penalty made at the Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit / Thurgood Marshall ; Capital punishment / Lewis F. Powell, Jr. -- pt. 3. Goals and limitations of capital punishment: Thinking of the death penalty as a cruel and unusual punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau ; Desert and deterrence : an assessment of the moral bases of the case for capital punishment / Richard O. Lempert ; Murder and capital punishment in the evolving context of the post-Furman era / Ruth D. peterson and William C. Bailey ; Feterrence and brutalization : what is the effect of executions? / William J. Bowers and Glenn L. Pierce ; Public opinion, the deathb penalty, and the Eighth Amendment : testing the MArshall hypothesis / Austin Sarat and Neil Vidmar ; Comparative review of death sentences : an empirical study of the Georgia experience / David C. Baldus, Charles Pulaski, and George Woodworth ; Felony murder and the Eighth Amendment jurisprudence of death / Richard A. Rosen -- pt. 4. Issues of race, youth, and gender: Patterns of death : an analysis of racial disparities in capital sentencing and homicide victimizing / Samuel R. Gross and Robert Mauro ; McCleskey v. Kemp / Randall Kennedy ; On the perils of line-drawing : juveniles and the death penalty / Joseph L. Hoffman ; Excluding jeveniles from New York's impendent death penalty / Victor L. Streib ; Death penalty for femal offenders / Victor L. Streib ; The death penalty and gender discrimination / Eloizabeth Rapaport -- pt. 5. Issues of innocence, ethics, and dignity: Miscarriages of justice in potentially capital cases / Hugo Adam Bedau and Michael L. Radelet ; Protecting the innocent : a response to the Bedau-Radelet study / Steven J. Markman and Paul G. Cassell ; Dilemmas in administering the death penalty : conscientious abstention, professional ethics, and the needs of the legal system / Richard J. Bonnie ; Diagnosing and treating "insanity" on death row : legal and ethical perspectives / Charles Patrick Ewing ; The dignity of the condemned / Richard J. Bonnie -- pt. 6. Prosecutirs and defense attorneys: Race and prosecutorial discretion in homicide cases / Michael L. Radelet and Glenn L. Pierce ; Preliminary screening od prosecutorial access to death qualified juries : a missing constitutional link / F. Thomas Schornhorst ; Defending life in Tennessee cases / Roy Brasfield Herron ; The trial for life : effective assistance of counsel in death penalty cases / Gary Goodpaster -- pt. 7. Questions for juries, apellate courts, and governors: "Black box decisions" on life and death--if they're arbitrary, don't blame the jury : a reply to Judge Patrick Higginbotham / Vivian Berger ; Gazing into the crystal ball : can jurors accurately predict dangerousness in capital cases? / James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen ; Facing death alone : the post-conviction attorney crisis on death row / Micahel Mello ; Justive delayed or justice denied?--a comment on recent proposals to reform death penmalty habeus corpus / Vivian Berger ; Do the paperwork or die : clemency, Ohio style? / Daniel T. Kobil -- pt. 8. Perspectives on the past, present and future: Disorder in the court : the desath penalty and the Constitution / Robert A. Burt ; Deregulating death / Robert Weisberg ; Challenging the death penalty under state constitutions / James R. Acker and Elizanbeth R. Walsh ; In favorem mortis : the Supreme Court and capital punishment / Anthony G. Amsterdam ; Justice Scalia's death penalty / Steven G. Gey ; Inheriting the wind : the Supreme Court and capital punishment in the 1990s / Franklin E. Zimring. |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Streib, Victor L.
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| ISBN |
087084007X |
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