Carter, Linda E. creator Kreitzberg, Ellen. text bibliography nju Newark, NJ LexisNexis c2004 2004 monographic eng

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1 v. (various pagings) 25 cm. 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. by Linda E. Carter, Ellen Kreitzberg. Includes bibliographical references and index. Capital punishment United States KF 9227.C2 C36 2004 0820551554 2003116527 PUCPR 031212 20160527195542.0 278437