Carter, Linda E. <br/><br/>
Understanding capital punishment law / 
by Linda E. Carter, Ellen Kreitzberg. 
 - Newark, N.J. :  LexisNexis,  2004. 
 - xviii, 356 p. ;  25 cm. 
 - The understanding series .
 - Understanding series (New York, N.Y.) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction to capital punishment law -- The death penalty debate -- Sources of the 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 -- Postconviction proceedings: the writ of habeas corpus -- Ineffective assistance of counsel -- Innocence and the death penalty -- 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 in death penalty cases -- Future issues in capital punishment law. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780820551555 0820551554 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003116527 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment--United States.<br/>Habeas corpus--United States.<br/>Discrimination in capital punishment--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF 9227  / C324u 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>345.73