A capital case in America how today's justice system handles death penalty cases from crime scene to ultimate execution of sentence
David Crump and George Jacobs.
- Durham, N. C. Carolina Academic press c 2000.
- xii, 276 p. ill. 23 cm
pt. 1. ch. 2. The defendant , the victim , and the investigation - - ch. 1. The offense and the arrest - - From offense to trial : thwe cases of Kenneth Brock - - ch. 3. Preliminary maneuvering : the lawyear , the judge , and the jury - - ch. 4. The trial - - ch. 5. The arguments and the verdict - - ch. 6. The penalty hearring - - ch. 7. the aftermath - - pt. 2. The jury and the life or dealth decision - - ch. 8. The Richmond Avenue murders - - ch. 9 . The trial of John Stiles Griffin - - ch. 10. The Halloween candy munder case - - ch. 11. The trial of Ronald O'bryan - - pt. 3. The evidence and the life or death decision - - ch. 12. The murder of an old woman - - ch. 13. The trial of Gerald Lee Bodde - - ch. 14. The Brady Bunch , part 1 : suppression of the evidence - - ch. 15. The Brady Bunch , part 2 : the trial of Richard Vargas - - ch. 16. The Navigation Street murder - - ch. 17. The Brady Bunch , part 4 : Bernardino Sierra's plea bargain - - pt. 4. Of barbarism and justice - - ch. 18. The dilemma of capital punishment - - ch. 19. The best of the abolitionist argument - - ch. 20. The case for capital punishment - - pt. 5. What happened to them? - - ch. 21. "A model prisoner " - - ch. 22. Appleals , petitions , and stays - - ch. 23. Life and death on death row - - ch. 24. The execution protocol .