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# Read * Death Penalty Cases, Third Edition: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment by Barry Latzer JD Ph.D. ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Death Penalty Cases, Third Edition: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment The first part, consisting of five chapters, talks about the mandatory death penalty, mitigating evidence and racial bias. The first chapter introduces the topics discussed throughout the book. * Provides the necessary historical background, a clear explanation of the current capital case process, and an impartial description of the controversies surrounding the death penalty * Provides the latest statistics relevant to discussions on the death penalty. * Topical organization of cases provides a
| Title | : | Death Penalty Cases, Third Edition: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (645 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0123820243 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
The first part, consisting of five chapters, talks about the mandatory death penalty, mitigating evidence and racial bias. The first chapter introduces the topics discussed throughout the book. * Provides the necessary historical background, a clear explanation of the current capital case process, and an impartial description of the controversies surrounding the death penalty * Provides the latest statistics relevant to discussions on the death penalty. * Topical organization of cases provides a more logical organization for structuring a course. The book concludes by exploring issues related to execution, such as not executing insane convicts. The next part covers death-eligible crimes, such as rape and other crimes that do not involve homicide and murder. * Clearly explains the different ways in which the states process death penalty cases, with excerpts of the most relevant statutes.. * Co-authors with different perspectives on the death penalt
BARRY LATZER is Professor of Government at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a member of the Ph.D. faculties in Criminal Justice at the Graduate School and University Center. Professor Latzer is also known for his work on state constitutional law, which is the subject of two of his books, State Constitutional Criminal Law (Clark, Boa
Christa Morton said Good buy. Came fast and good collection of cases. "Death Penalty Cases" according to A Customer. Death Penalty Cases is a well written, concise, and unbiased overview of 19 United States Supreme Court cases chronicling the recent evolution of capitol punishment in the United States. Each chapter is devoted to a single case and begins by detailing the issues the Supreme Court addressed in that case as well as the rule of law that arose from the case. This method of presentation is appropriate for insuring that adult readers understand the legal basis of capitol punishment but are free to form their own opinions about the ethics
With this book, Barry Latzer and David McCord have admirably met that challenge. Latzer and McCord have carefully selected and edited landmark Supreme Court decisions encompassing the justice’s far-ranging, fascinating, and inevitably controversial capital punishment jurisprudence. Cassell, Ronald N. Acker, Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Criminal Justice, SUNY-Albany "Given the attention paid to the death penalty by judges, lawyers and the public, I always have been surprised by the difficulty of finding a first-rate casebook to teach the subject. This book moves far beyond sloganee
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