Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process
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The third edition of Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process includes all major Supreme Court cases, including the landmark decisions in Roper v. Simmons, Atkins v. Virginia and Ring v. Arizona. With the media's attention continually focused on capital punishment cases, the death penalty remains a lightning-rod issue. Coyne and Entzeroth focus on Eighth Amendment and Fourteen Amendment challenges to the death penalty, and provide comprehensive treatment of post-conviction and federal habeas corpus issues.Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process provides a historical overview of the death penalty and devotes an entire chapter to bedrock issues including deterrence, retribution, brutalization and innocence. A separate chapter examines the impact of race, gender and sexual orientation in capital cases.Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process provides a historical overview of the death penalty and devotes an entire chapter Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process provides a historical overview of the death penalty and devotes an entire chapter Coyne and Entzeroth have updated their materials to include all relevant recent developments in the field, including the growing importance of international law, the resumption of federal executions, the results of the capital trial of terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and the American Bar Association's call for a moratorium on executions.Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process provides a historical overview of the death penalty and devotes an entire chapter Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process provides a historical overview of the death penalty and devotes an entire chapter In a methodical and comprehensive fashion, Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process explores death eligibility, jury selection, aggravating and mitigating factors, the right to effective counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, the use of psychiatric experts, stays of execution, state and federal habeas procedures, clemency and methods of execution.
Table of CasesTable of PrisonersList of Web AddressesPreface to the Second EditionPreface to First EditionAcknowledgmentsCh. 1The Great Debate Over Capital Punishment3Ch. 2Eight Amendment Prohibition Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment51Ch. 3Early Constitutional Challenges to the Death Penalty117Ch. 4Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation173Ch. 5Constitutional Limitations on Death Eligibility221Ch. 6Selecting the Capital Jury283Ch. 7The Role of Aggravating Circumstances329Ch. 8The Role of Mitigating Circumstances389Ch. 9The Sentencing Phase of Capital Cases447Ch. 10Use of Psychiatric Experts in Capital Cases527Ch. 11Assistance of Counsel555Ch. 12Stays of Execution and State Post-Conviction Relief Proceedings623Ch. 13Introduction to Federal Habeas Corpus Review661Ch. 14State Barriers to Federal Habeas Review707Ch. 15Retroactivity769Ch. 16Presumption of Correctness799Ch. 17Successive Habeas Corpus Petitions, Abuse of the Writ, and Clemency811Ch. 18The Federal Death Penalty845Ch. 19International Law and the Death Penalty933App. A"Three Specimen Days," from Jackson & Christian, Death Row (Beacon Press 1980)993App. B"An Englishman Abroad,"997Index1005
