Capital punishment and the judicial process
Subtitle: 1998 supplement
By: Randall Coyne, Lyn Entzeroth
Contributors: Entzeroth, Lyn
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Capital punishment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Eighth amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment; title: The great debate over capital punishment; title: Early constitutional challenges to the death penalty; title: Race, gender and the death penalty; title: Constitutional limitations on death eligibility; title: Selecting the capital jury; title: The role of aggravating circumstances; title: The role of mitigating circumstances; title: The sentencing phase of capital cases; title: Use of psychiatric experts in capital cases; title: Assistance of counsel; title: Stays of execution and state post-conviction relief proceedings; title: Introduction to federal habeas corpus review; title: The application of state procedural bars in federal habeas corpus; title: Retroactivity; title: Presumption of correctness; title: Successive habeas corpus petitions and abuse of the writ; title: The federal death penalty; title: International law and the death penalty.