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  • The Death Penalty in the Eighties

    An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punishment

    by Welsh S. White ...
    The Death Penalty in the Eighties: An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punishment by Welsh S. White delivers a probing and accessible analysis of capital punishment in the United States following its reinstatement in 1976. Blending legal scholarship, case studies, and practical insights, White explains the major Supreme Court decisions that have shaped the administration of the death ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Life in the Balance

    Procedural Safeguards in Capital Cases

    by Welsh S. White ...
    Life in the Balance is a critical examination of our system of capital punishment. Individual essays carefully scrutinize legal rules that are of particular significance when a defendant’s life is at stake. One essay discusses the admissibility of confessions obtained by police trickery; another, the admissibility of government psychiatric testimony; and still another, the constitutional problems ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Death Penalty in the Nineties

    An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punishment

    by Welsh S. White ...
    The Death Penalty in the Nineties: An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punishment by Welsh S. White is a thoroughly updated and incisive assessment of America’s evolving system of capital punishment at the close of the twentieth century. Building on his acclaimed earlier work, White offers readers a clear and in-depth examination of major legal developments, Supreme Court decisions, and ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Miranda's Waning Protections

    Police Interrogation Practices after Dickerson

    by Welsh S. White ...
    Did the Supreme Court's upholding of Miranda in 2000 adversely impact law enforcement, as conservatives have complained, or was it a reaffirmation of individual rights?Welsh S. White looks at both sides of the issue, emphasizing that Miranda represents just one stage in the Court's ongoing struggle to accommodate a fundamental conflict between law enforcement and civil liberties, and assessing ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Litigating in the Shadow of Death

    Defense Attorneys in Capital Cases

    by Welsh S. White ...
    "Anyone who cares about capital punishment should read this compelling, lucid account of the obstacles defense attorneys face and the strategies they adopt."--John Parry, University of Pittsburgh School of Law"With its compelling narratives of cases, strategies, and ethical dilemmas, Litigating in the Shadow of Death is difficult to put down. . . . This pathbreaking book encapsulates the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    by John Boston, Daniel E Manville ...
    Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual, in its much-anticipated fourth edition, is an indispensable guide for prisoners and prisoner advocates seeking to understand the rights guaranteed to prisoners by law and how to protect those rights. Clear, comprehensive, practical advice provides prisoners with everything they need to know on conditions of confinement, civil liberties in prison, procedural ... Read more

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  • Death Penalty Cases

    Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment

    by Barry Latzer ...
    Death Penalty Cases presents significant verbatim excerpts of death-penalty decisions from the United States Supreme Court. The first chapter introduces the topics discussed throughout the book. It also includes a detailed history of the death penalty in the United States. After this introduction, the remaining eighteen chapters are divided into five parts: Foundational Cases, Death-Eligible ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Death Penalty

    Constitutional Issues, Commentaries, and Case Briefs

    by Scott Vollum, Durant Frantzen, Claudia San Miguel, Rolando V. del Carmen, Kelly Cheeseman ...
    The Death Penalty, Third Edition, brings together all the legal issues related to the death penalty and provides case briefs for the most important United States Supreme Court death penalty cases. No other book available brings together a discussion of the major constitutional issues surrounding the death penalty with a broad array of associated case briefs. The authors classify cases according to ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Questioning Capital Punishment

    Law, Policy, and Practice

    by James R. Acker ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather than answering them, Questioning Capital Punishment offers the footing needed to allow for more informed consideration and analysis of these controversies. Acker edits judicial decisions that have addressed constitutional challenges to capital punishment and its administration in the ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Double Jeopardy

    The History, The Law

    by George C. Thomas, III ...
    In the first book-length book on the subject in over a quarter century, George C. Thomas III advances an integrated theory of double jeopardy law, a theory anchored in historical, doctrinal, and philosophical method.Despite popular belief, double jeopardy has never been a limitation on the legislature. It functions instead to keep prosecutors and judges from imposing more than one criminal ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Death Penalty in the United States

    A Complete Guide to Federal and State Laws, 2d ed.

    by Louis J. Palmer, , Jr. ...
    The death penalty landscape has changed considerably since the 1998 first edition of this book. For example, six states that had the death penalty--Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York--no longer impose the punishment. Some of the changes set out in this second edition involve discussions of all of the significant cases decided by the United States Supreme Court ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Debating The Death Penalty : Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts On Both Sides Make Their Case

    by Hugo Adam Bedau;Paul G. Cassell ...
    When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public confusion is often the result. This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD