Capital punishment : issues and perspectives

Author(s)

• Mandel, A. V.

Bibliographic Information

Capital punishment : issues and perspectives

A.V. Mandel

Nova Science Publishers, c2002

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Capital punishment will not go away. The latest events bringing the issue to the forefront of society are the Washington snipers, terrorism and the spate of cases of innocent death-row individuals proven by DNA analysis. This vexing societal issue will no doubt be impacted in America by pro-capital punishment views of the present administration in Washington.

Table of Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Capital Punishment: A Brief Overview
• Capital Punishment: An Overview of Federal Death Penalty Statutes
• The Death Penalty Before the Supreme Court: Capital Punishment 1987-1995
• Capital Punishment: Summary of the Supreme Court Decisions of the 1998-99 Term
• Capital Punishment: Summary of the Supreme Court Decisions of the 1999-00 Term
• Death to Drug Dealers? Constitutional Impediments to Imposition of the Death Penalty Upon Continuing Criminal Entrepreneurs
• Supreme Court Decisions and Overview of Capital Punishment for the Mentally Retarded
• Capital Punishment: Bibliography-in-Brief
• Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996: A Summary
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA63591528
• ISBN:
  • 1590336313
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 147 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Capital punishment