Includes bibliographical references (pages xlv-xlvii) and index.
Contents:
The great debate over capital punishment -- Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment -- Constitutional challenges to the death penalty -- Race, gender, and sexual orientation -- Constitutional limitations on death eligibility -- Selecting the capital jury -- The role of aggravating circumstances -- The role of mitigating circumstances -- The sentencing phase of capital cases -- Use of psychiatric experts in capital cases -- Assistance of counsel -- Stays of execution and state post-conviction relief proceedings -- Introduction to federal habeas corpus review -- State barriers to federal habeas review -- Retroactivity -- Successive habeas corpus petitions, abuse of the writ, and clemency -- The federal death penalty -- International law and the death penalty.
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