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Author : Robert Dittmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798589436068
This is a sourcebook on the supreme court's decisions on the no cruel and unusual punishment's clause of the eighth amendment.
Author : Michael Meltsner
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000047381748
Author : Robert Dittmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508801096
This is a book of the complete text (and some excerpts) of the most important supreme court cases on the No Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment.
Author : Scott Vollum,Rolando V. del Carmen,Durant Frantzen,Claudia San Miguel,Kelly Cheeseman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781455776740
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 legal issues and provide a commentary on the various sub-topics, presenting legal materials in an easily understood form. Though the primary audiences of the book are undergraduates in criminal justice programs and practitioners in the corrections and justice systems, the book will also prove useful to anyone who has an interest in the death penalty, the criminal justice system, or the United States Constitution. Every chapter starts with commentaries regarding general case law in a sub-topic, such as aggravating and mitigating factors, followed by a chart of the cases briefed in the chapter, and then the case briefs. These case briefs acquaint the reader with Supreme Court cases by summarizing facts, issues, reasons, and holdings. The Death Penalty, Third Edition, is a succinct, trusted guide to the law of capital punishment in the United States. Offers a large number of case briefs from the most important and most recent Supreme Court decisions involving the death penalty to illustrate evolution of death penalty law and the Constitutional standing of capital punishment Reflects significant shifts in the social and political climate surrounding the death penalty in recent years Provides updated discussion of key death penalty trends and issues including those associated with number of executions, wrongful convictions/executions, public attitudes and support for the death penalty, and current controversies surrounding its use
Author : D.J. Herda
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464501784
Should the death penalty be considered cruel and unusual punishment? This was the question brought before the United States Supreme Court in 1972. In FURMAN V. GEORGIA: THE DEATH PENALTY CASE, author D. J. Herda examines the ideas and arguments behind this landmark case. Presented in a lively, thought-provoking overview, Herda brings to life the people and events of this controversial decision and sheds light on the current controversy still raging across the country today.
Author : Walter Surma Tarnopolsky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780773595439
Author : Greg Roensch
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0791093824
Discusses the history of capital punishment, explains the United States Supreme Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia, and explores the impact of this case.
Author : Carol S. Steiker,Jordan M. Steiker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674737426
Refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the U.S. has attempted to reform and rationalize capital punishment through federal constitutional law. While execution chambers remain active in several states, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue that the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment.
Author : Robert Dittmer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534970312
This is a collection of major sixth amendment decisions. For sentencing decisions, see my book "Sentencing Supreme Court Decisions" or "No Cruel and Unusual Punishment Supreme Court Decisions." Supreme court decisions are in the public domain and are freely available at such websites as supreme.justia.com and law.cornell.edu
Author : David Machajewski
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538343111
When the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, it had a major flaw: it failed to acknowledge individual rights. Early Americans were not pleased. They didn't believe their new government was respecting their freedoms. Thus, the Bill of Rights was created. Readers will explore the history, significance, and controversy surrounding the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits cruel or unusual punishment. Primary sources, sidebars, and compelling stories, demonstrate how the amendment protects, and potentially harms, criminals. Historic and present-day examples of long-standing debates about the amendment's controversial "cruel and unusual" clause further illustrate the amendment's importance.
Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1508 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210025663863
Author : Barry Latzer,United States. Supreme Court
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015040371125
Appendice includes: Facts and figures on murder and the death penalty.
Author : Colin Dayan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262551960
A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment. The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more recently at Guantánamo were shocking to most Americans. And those who condemned the treatment of prisoners abroad have focused on U.S. military procedures and abuses of executive powers in the war on terror, or, more specifically, on the now-famous White House legal counsel memos on the acceptable limits of torture. But in The Story of Cruel and Unusual, Colin Dayan argues that anyone who has followed U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment would recognize the prisoners' treatment at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo as a natural extension of the language of our courts and practices in U.S. prisons. In fact, it was no coincidence that White House legal counsel referred to a series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1980s and 1990s in making its case for torture.Dayan traces the roots of "acceptable" torture to slave codes of the nineteenth century that deeply embedded the dehumanization of the incarcerated in our legal system. Although the Eighth Amendment was interpreted generously during the prisoners' rights movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, this period of judicial concern was an anomaly. Over the last thirty years, Supreme Court decisions have once again dismantled Eighth Amendment protections and rendered such words as "cruel" and "inhuman" meaningless when applied to conditions of confinement and treatment during detention. Prisoners' actual pain and suffering have been explained away in a rhetorical haze—with rationalizations, for example, that measure cruelty not by the pain or suffering inflicted, but by the intent of the person who inflicted it. The Story of Cruel and Unusual is a stunningly original work of legal scholarship, and a searing indictment of the U.S. penal system.
Author : Antonin Scalia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781596987005
Brilliant. Colorful. Visionary. Tenacious. Witty. Since his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has been described as all of these things and for good reason. He is perhaps the best-known justice on the Supreme Court today and certainly the most controversial. Yet most Americans have probably not read even one of his several hundred Supreme Court opinions. In Scalia Dissents, Kevin Ring, former counsel to the U.S. Senate's Constitution Subcommittee, lets Justice Scalia speak for himself. This volume—the first of its kind— showcases the quotable justice's take on many of today's most contentious constitutional debates. Scalia Dissentscontains over a dozen of the justice's most compelling and controversial opinions. Ring also provides helpful background on the opinions and a primer on Justice Scalia's judicial philosophy. Scalia Dissents is the perfect book for readers who love scintillating prose and penetrating insight on the most important constitutional issues of our time.
Author : Joseph Anthony Melusky,Keith A. Pesto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 9791576076025
In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.S. history, Cruel and Unusual Punishment stands out as a levelheaded, even handed, and thorough analysis of the issue. Melusky and Pesto, who are not identified, discuss the theoretical and historical evolution of constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment in the US. They analyze issues and present excerpts from relevant documents and court decisions, public opinion survey results, statistical data, and a few secondary sources. Readers are not assumed to have any background in law. Offers students a complex, even handed understanding of one of the nation's most polarized legal debates, and raw materials with which to formulate their own opinions, excerpts from landmark decisions and federal sentencing guidelines and data from state statistics and public opinion polls.