Death penalty stories
By: edited by John H. Blume and Jordan M. Steiker.
Contributors: Blume, John H.; Steiker, Jordan M.
Publisher: Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press; West Academic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9781599413433
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States; Death row inmates -- United States
Notes: "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.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: When Willie Francis died : the "disturbing" story behind one of the eighth amendment's most enduring standards of risk / Deborah Denno; title: Furman v. Georgia : not an end, but a beginning / Carol S. Steiker; title: Gregg v. Georgia and allied cases : protecting the death penalty from abolition / Hugo Adam Bedau; title: Coker v. Georgia : of rape, race, and burying the past / Sheri Lynn Johnson; title: Gilmore v. Utah : the persistent problem of "volunteers" / John H. Blume; title: McCleskey v. Kemp : denial avoidance, and the legitimization of racial discrimination in the administration of the death penalty / David C. Baldus ... [et al.]; title: Penry v. Lynaugh : the hazards of predicting the future / Jordan M. Steiker; title: The story of Payne v. Tennessee : victims triumphant / Austin Sarat; title: Simmons v. South Carolina and the myth of early release / David Bruck; title: Bell v. Cone : the fatal consequences of incomplete failure / David R. Dow; title: Roper v. Simmons : abolishing the death penalty for juvenile offenders in the wake of international consensus / Scott W. Howe; title: House v. Bell and the death of innocence / Joseph L. Hoffmann.