The death penalty
By: Mark Tushnet
Series: Constitutional issues
Publisher: Facts on File
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States.
Description: The author, a constitutional scholar, examines the way the Supreme Court has dealt with the death penalty from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index.
"A Harold Steinberg book."
Table of contents: title: The death penalty in constitutional law; title: Challenging the death penalty; title: The modern death penalty; title: Death stories; title: The death penalty in the twenty-first century; title: Appendix A : Weems v. United States, 1910; title: Appendix B : memorandum to the conference Re: capital punishment, 1963; title: Appendix C : Maxwell v. Bishop, 1968; title: Appendix D : McGautha v. California, 1970; title: Appendix E : Furman v. Georgia, 1972; title: Appendix F : Gregg v. Georgia, 1976; title: Appendix G : McCleskey v. Kemp, 1987; title: Appendix H : Payne v. Tennessee, 1991