Cases and Materials on The Death Penalty
Nina Rivkind
Primary Author
Steven F. Shatz
Primary Author
mixed material
bibliography
St. Paul
WEST Thomson Reuters
2009
en
English
xviii, 960 p.; 26 x 20 cm.
American Casebook Series
This casebook is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the Supreme Court’s death penalty jurisprudence. Part I contains background information about the death penalty and the Court’s seminal cases. Part II addresses constitutional challenges to various aspects of death penalty schemes. Part III considers the litigation of a capital case by examining the Court's constitutional decisions regarding the process as a whole and the penalty phase, in particular. Part IV concerns issues arising after the death judgment, including review of the death judgment and the execution itself. Part V reconsiders the death penalty from the perspective of international law and recent critiques and proposals for reform.
Contents:
Part 1. Introduction of the Course
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Supreme Court's Seminal Cases
Part 2. The Constitution and Death Penalty Schemes
Chapter 3. Limiting the Risk of Arbitrariness
Chapter 4. The Requirement of an Individualized Penalty Determination
Chapter 5. The Requirement of Proportionality
Part 3. Litigating the Capital Case
Chapter 6. Selecting the Jury
Chapter 7. The Defendant and Defense Counsel
Chapter 8. The Prosecutor
Chapter 9. The Penalty Hearing
Chapter 10. Guiding the Sentencer
Part 4. After the Death Judgement
Chapter 11. Federal Habeas Corpus Review of State Death Judgments
Chapter 12. Execution
Part 5. The Death Penalty Reconsidered
Chapter 13. The Death Penalty in the International Context
Chapter 14. A Broken System?
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