01842nam a2200265Ia 4500 278437 OCoLC 20160527195542.0 031212s2004 nju b 001 0 eng 2003116527 0820551554 PUCPR cicg KF 9227.C2 C36 2004 Carter, Linda E. Local 69935 Understanding capital punishment law by Linda E. Carter, Ellen Kreitzberg. Newark, NJ LexisNexis c2004. 1 v. (various pagings) 25 cm. The understanding series Local 179047 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. Capital punishment United States. Local 68964 Kreitzberg, Ellen. Local 121573 Understanding series (New York, N.Y.) 200123 200123 0 0 lc 0 KF_9227_000000000000000_C2_C36_2004 0 cil 274916 7 7 4 2016-05-27 Lexis Nexis 33.33 399464 0 KF 9227.C2 C36 2004 70000000772595 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:278437 6