Death penalty stories / / edited by John H. Blume and Jordan M. Steiker

• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Foundation Press, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (445 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 345.730773
• Soggetto topico: Capital punishment - United States; Death row inmates - United States
• Persona (resp. second.): BlumeJohn H.; SteikerJordan M.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: When Willie Francis died : the "disturbing" story behind one of the eighth amendment's most enduring standards of risk / Deborah Denno -- Furman v. Georgia : not an end, but a beginning / Carol S. Steiker -- Gregg v. Georgia and allied cases : protecting the death penalty from abolition / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Coker v. Georgia : of rape, race, and burying the past / Sheri Lynn Johnson -- Gilmore v. Utah : the persistent problem of "volunteers" / John H. Blume -- McCleskey v. Kemp : denial avoidance, and the legitimization of racial discrimination in the administration of the death penalty / David C. Baldus ... [et al.] -- Penry v. Lynaugh : the hazards of predicting the future / Jordan M. Steiker -- The story of Payne v. Tennessee : victims triumphant / Austin Sarat -- Simmons v. South Carolina and the myth of early release / David Bruck -- Bell v. Cone : the fatal consequences of incomplete failure / David R. Dow -- Roper v. Simmons : abolishing the death penalty for juvenile offenders in the wake of international consensus / Scott W. Howe -- House v. Bell and the death of innocence / Joseph L. Hoffmann.
• Titolo autorizzato: Death penalty stories
• ISBN: 1-62810-735-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136100503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II