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Death penalty stories / edited by John H. Blume and Jordan M. Steiker.
Blume, John H.; Steiker, Jordan M.
2009
KF9227.C2 D425 2009 (Map It)
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Title
Death penalty stories / edited by John H. Blume and Jordan M. Steiker.
Published
New York, NY : Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press, 2009.
Call Number
KF9227.C2 D425 2009
ISBN
9781599413433 (pbk. alk. paper)
1599413434 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
vii, 490 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)314632875
Summary
"This title offers detailed accounts of the most important capital cases in American law. In addition to comprehensive coverage of the canonical cases such as Furman v. Georgia, Gregg v. Georgia, Penry v. Lynaugh, Payne v. Tennessee, and McCleskey v. Kemp, the volume also presents in-depth accounts of cases involving core capital issues, including representation, protections for the innocent, proportionality limits, execution methods, the problem of volunteers, and the guarantee of heightened reliability"--Publisher description.
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"This title offers detailed accounts of the most important capital cases in American law. In addition to comprehensive coverage of the canonical cases such as Furman v. Georgia, Gregg v. Georgia, Penry v. Lynaugh, Payne v. Tennessee, and McCleskey v. Kemp, the volume also presents in-depth accounts of cases involving core capital issues, including representation, protections for the innocent, proportionality limits, execution methods, the problem of volunteers, and the guarantee of heightened reliability."--Publisher description.
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Steiker, Jordan M.
When Willie Francis died : the "disturbing" story behind one of the eighth amendment's most enduring standards of risk / Deborah Denno
Furman v. Georgia : not an end, but a beginning / Carol S. Steiker
Gregg v. Georgia and allied cases : protecting the death penalty from abolition / Hugo Adam Bedau
Coker v. Georgia : of rape, race, and burying the past / Sheri Lynn Johnson
Gilmore v. Utah : the persistent problem of "volunteers" / John H. Blume
McCleskey v. Kemp : denial avoidance, and the legitimization of racial discrimination in the administration of the death penalty / David C. Baldus ... [et al.]
Penry v. Lynaugh : the hazards of predicting the future / Jordan M. Steiker
The story of Payne v. Tennessee : victims triumphant / Austin Sarat
Simmons v. South Carolina and the myth of early release / David Bruck
Bell v. Cone : the fatal consequences of incomplete failure / David R. Dow
Roper v. Simmons : abolishing the death penalty for juvenile offenders in the wake of international consensus / Scott W. Howe
House v. Bell and the death of innocence / Joseph L. Hoffmann.

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