TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carter,Linda E.
AU  - Kreitzberg,Ellen
TI  - Understanding capital punishment law
SN  - 9780820551555
AV  - KF 9227 C324u 2004
U1  - 345.73 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Newark, N.J.
PB  - LexisNexis
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - Habeas corpus
KW  - Discrimination in capital punishment
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -