Society's final solution : a history and discussion of the death penalty / edited by Laura E. Randa.
1997
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Title
Society's final solution : a history and discussion of the death penalty / edited by Laura E. Randa.
Published
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
KF9227.C2 S67 1997
ISBN
0761807136 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 266 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)36283873
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-247) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch. 1
History of the Death Penalty / Michael H. Reggio
1
Ch. 2
Administration of the Death Penalty Through the Courts: A Defense Attorney's Perspective / Kevin J. O'Connell
13
Ch. 3
Great Ideas in the Law: Due Process of Law / Isidore Starr
25
Ch. 4
A Judge's View of the Death Penalty / Richard S. Gebelein
43
Ch. 5
The Role of a Prosecutor in a Death Penalty Case / Steven P. Wood
47
Ch. 6
Silent Voices: If Only These Murdered Women Could Speak - A Perspective of the Death Penalty / Thomas P. Gordon
55
Ch. 7
Tracking a Death Penalty Case / Jim Courtney
59
Ch. 8
Racists Beliefs & Organizational Affiliation: Can They Be Taken into Account in a Capital-Sentencing Proceeding? / L. Anita Richardson
65
Ch. 9
What I Will Not Tell You About the Death Penalty / Horacio D. Lewis
73
Ch. 10
Do Defendants Have the Right to Ask Prospective Jurors if They Would Automatically Impose the Death Penalty? / L. Anita Richardson
77
Ch. 11
Life or Death / Clifford Callaway
85
Ch. 12
A Family's Support of the Death Penalty / Holly Wilson
89
Ch. 13
Innocence and the Death Penalty: Assessing the Danger of Mistaken Executions Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights Committee on the Judiciary
95
Ch. 14
The Stars Fall on Texas / Ginny Carroll
117
Ch. 15
Capital Murder: The Trial and Appeal Process in Delaware / Joseph M. Asher Andrew McK. Jefferson
121
Ch. 16
Board of Pardons: The Final Verdict / R. Thomas Wagner
129
Ch. 17
Sentencing for Life: Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penalty / Richard C. Dieter
133
Ch. 18
Millions Misspent: What Politicians Don't Say About the High Costs of the Death Penalty / Richard C. Dieter
153
Ch. 19
The Death Penalty and Justice Blackmun / David J. W. Vanderhoof
179
Ch. 20
Hanging, Twisting in the Wind: Justice Thurgood Marshall, Lynching and the Death Penalty / David J. W. Vanderhoof
201
Ch. 21
Capital Punishment and Offenders with Mental Retardation / Emily A. Reed
211
Endnotes
225
About the Authors
249
Index
253