Contributor
Acker, James R., 1951-
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press c2003
Descriptionxi, 806 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:America's experiment with capital punishment / James R. Acker -- American death penalty opinion: past, present, future / Robert M. Bohm -- Judical developments in capital punishment law / Carol S. Steiker -- Beyond human ability? The rise and fall of death penalty litigation / James R. Acker -- The politics of capital punishment: the sacrifice of fairness for executions / Stephen B. Bright -- The influence of international law and practice on the death penalty in the United States / Richard J. Wilson -- Roots / Robert Blecker -- Justice deterrence and the death penalty / Ernest van den Haag -- Is capital punishment an effective deterrent for murder? an examination of social science research / Ruth Peterson -- Future dangerousness and incapacitation / Jon Sorensen -- Executing women, juveniles, and the mentally retarded: second class citizens in capital punishment / Victor Streib -- The execution of the innocent / Michael L. Radelet -- Closing the circle: The illusion of lawyers for people litigating for their lives at the Fin de Siecle / Michael Mello -- Stacking the deck for guilt and death: The failure of death qualification to ensure impartiality / Marla Sandys.
Note:The capital sentencing decision: guided discretion, reasoned moral judgement or legal fiction / William J. Bowers -- Mitigation and the study of lives: on the roots of violent criminality and the nature of capital justice / Craig Haney -- Race discrimination and the death penalty: an empirical and legal overview / David C. Baldus -- Federal habeas corpus in capital cases / Eric Freedman -- The economic costs of capital punishment: past, present, future / Robert M. Bohm -- "Above all do no harm": the role of health and mental health professionals in the capital punishment process / Charles Patrick Ewing -- The impact of the death penalty on the families of the homicide victims and of condemed prisioners / Margaret Vandiver -- Life under sentence of death: historical and contemporary perspectives / Robert Johnson -- The evolving role of clemency in capital cases / Daniel T. Kobil -- Lethally humane? the evolution of execution methods in the United States / Deborah W. Denno.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index
