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Death penalty cases : leading U.S. Supreme Court cases on capital punishment / Barry Latzer.
- Title
- Death penalty cases : leading U.S. Supreme Court cases on capital punishment / Barry Latzer.
- Author
- Latzer, Barry, 1945-
- Publication
- Boston, Mass. : Butterworth-Heinemann, c1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Description
- xi, 260 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Capital punishment : the law and the issues -- Cruel and unusual as applied : Furman v. Georgia (1972) -- Not inherently unconstitutional : Gregg v. Georgia (1976) -- Rape and the death penalty : Coker v. Georgia (1977) -- Mandatory death penalty : Woodson v. North Carolina (1976) -- "Mandatory" death statutes : Blystone v. Pennsylvania (1990) -- Vague aggravating factors : Godfrey v. Georgia (1980) -- Mitigating evidence : Lockett v. Ohio (1978) -- Jury unanimity on mitigating evidence : McKoy v. North Carolina (1990) -- Murder defendants who did not kill (I) : Enmund v. Florida (1982) -- Murder defendants who did not kill (II) : Tison v. Arizona (1987) -- Jurors opposed to capital punishment : Witherspoon v. Illinois (1968) -- Selecting the "death-qualified" jury : Lockhart v. McCree (1986) -- Selecting an unbiased jury : Turner v. Murray (1986) -- Right to effective counsel : Burger v. Kemp (1987) -- Victim impact evidence : Payne v. Tennessee (1991) -- Capital sentencing by judges : Spaziano v. Florida (1984) -- Proportional sentencing review : Pulley v. Harris (1984) -- Death sentences and double jeopardy : Arizona v. Rumsey (1984) -- Juveniles may be executed : Stanford v. Kentucky (1989) -- Insane convicts may not be executed : Ford v. Wainwright (1986) -- Execution of the mentally retarded : Penry v. Lynaugh (1989) -- Race discrimination and capital punishment : McCleskey v. Kemp (1987).
- ISBN
- 0750699396 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^97028267^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library