Murder at the Supreme Court
Subtitle: lethal crimes and landmark cases
By: Martin Clancy and Tim O'Brien
Contributors: O'Brien, Tim
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9781616146481
Subjects: United States; United States. Supreme Court; Cases; Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment
Description: Veteran journalists Martin Clancy and Tim O'Brien pull back the curtain of secrecy that surrounds Supreme Court deliberations and reveal the crucial links between landmark capital-punishment cases and the lethal crimes at their root.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-395) and index.
Table of contents: title: A house of secrets; title: The road to the death house; title: The death penalty lives again; title: Good guy/bad guy? same guy? : proportionality and the death penalty; title: Black on white : race and the death penalty; title: Mental capacity and "evolving standards of decency"; title: Juvenile killers : should they die?; title: Medicate to execute?; title: Getting even : retribution and the death penalty; title: Non-triggermen : just as guilty?; title: The victims left behind : do their opinions count?; title: The mechanics of death; title: "Actual innocence"; title: Ineffective assistance of counsel : worst crimes?; title: or just worst lawyers?; title: Closing arguments; title: Appendix A. The Georgia death-penalty statute; title: Appendix B. Bronstein victim impact statement.