The past as prologue
Subtitle: the Supreme Court's pre-modern death penalty jurisprudence and its influence on the Supreme Court's modern death penalty decisions
By: Robert M. Bohm
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781611630916
Subjects: United States; United States. Supreme Court; Cases; Capital punishment; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Clemency : the "fail safe" in our criminal justice system; title: Coerced confessions and compelled self-incrimination: revolting to the sense of justice; title: Cruel and unusual punishment : must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society; title: Defective lineup procedures : a lineup, conducted without notice to defendant's counsel, is unconstitutional; title: Double jeopardy : not implicit in the concept of ordered liberty; title: Effective assistance of counsel: death is different; title: Equal protection : an exceptional punishment for life prisoners; title: Ex post facto : a government of laws and not of men; title: Fair trials: trials must be free from a coercive or intimidating atmosphere; title: Jurisdiction: military commissions unauthorized by congressional authority are; title: Unconstitutional in jurisdictions where the civil courts are operating constitutionally; title: Jury instructions : in death cases, doubts about a juror's interpretation of an; title: Instruction should be resolved in favor of the accused; title: Jury selection: the right to be tried by an impartial jury; title: Sentencing: the court has long recognized that for the determination of sentences; title: Justice generally requires that there be taken into account the circumstances of the offense; title: Together with the character and propensities of the offender; title: Analysis and lessons learned.