Capital punishment
Subtitle: cruel and unusual?
By: Kim Masters Evans
Contributors: Gale Group; Information Plus (Firm : Wylie, Tex.)
Series: The information series on current topics; Information Plus reference series
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit, Mi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781414407470
Other titles: Capital punishment 2008.
Notes: Formerly published by: Information Plus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A continuing conflict-a history of capital punishment in the United States; title: Supreme Court rulings-constitutionality of the death penalty, guidelines for judges and juries, jury selection, and sentencing procedures; title: Supreme Court rulings-circumstances that do and do not warrant the death penalty, right to effective counsel, appeals based on new evidence, and constitutionality of execution methods; title: Supreme Court rulings-mitigating circumstances, youth, insanity, mental retardation, the admissibility of victim impact statements, and the influence of race in capital cases; title: Death penalty laws: offenses, sentences, appeals and execution methods; title: Statistics: death sentences, capital case costs, and executions; title: Issues of fairness: racial bias and quality of legal representation; title: Exonerations, moratoriums,and reforms; title: Public attitudes toward capital punishment; title: Capital punishment around the world; title: The debate-capital punishment should be maintained; title: The debate-capital punishment should be abolished.