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008 080229s2008 nju 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008009626
020 $a9781422423868 (softbound)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
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050 00 $aKF9227.C2$bC36 2008
082 00 $a345.73/0773$222
100 1 $aCarter, Linda E.
245 10 $aUnderstanding capital punishment /$cLinda E. Carter, Ellen S. Kreitzberg, Scott Howe.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aNewark, NJ :$bLexisNexis Matthew Bender,$c2008.
263 $a0804
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aRev. ed of: Understanding capital punishment law. c2004.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aIntroduction 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.
650 0 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States.
700 1 $aKreitzberg, Ellen.
700 1 $aHowe, Scott.
700 1 $aCarter, Linda E.$tUnderstanding capital punishment law.