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  • The Death Penalty

    Documents Decoded

    Series series Documents Decoded
    When is the death penalty considered "cruel and unusual punishment" or "constitutionally permissible"? This book exposes readers directly to landmark opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court that strive to answer difficult questions regarding capital punishment.This book provides far more than an effective overview of the history, current status, and future of capital punishment in America; it supplies ... Leer más

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

    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, ... Leer más

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  • Make No Law

    The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment

    de Anthony Lewis ...
    A crucial and compelling account of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark Supreme Court case that redefined libel, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis.The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel—and was ... Leer más

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  • Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Race, Crime, and the Law

    **An "admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race" (The Washington Post) takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before."This book should be a standard for all law students."—Boston Globe**In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to ... Leer más

    $5.49 USD

  • Presumed Guilty

    How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

    An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century.Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an ... Leer más

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  • Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court

    A Guide to the Major Decisions on Search and Seizure, Privacy, and Individual Rights

    In any episode of the popular television show Law and Order, questions of police procedure in collecting evidence often arise. Was a search legal? Was the evidence obtained lawfully? Did the police follow the rules in pursuing their case? While the show depicts fictional cases and scenarios, police procedure with regard to search and seizure is a real and significant issue in the criminal justice ... Leer más

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  • Executed on a Technicality

    Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row

    de David R. Dow ...
    When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward judges to a highly arbitrary death penalty system.It is these concrete accounts of the ... Leer más

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  • Debating the Death Penalty

    Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case

    Edición de 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, ... Leer más

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  • Against the Death Penalty

    A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty.Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Breyer argues that it does; that it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently and, thus, violates the ban on ""cruel and unusual punishments"" specified by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.Today’s administration of the death penalty ... Leer más

    $12.79 USD

  • DeathQuest

    An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States

    This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment. The book begins with the history of the death penalty from colonial to modern times, and then examines the moral and legal arguments for and against capital punishment. It also provides an overview of major Supreme Court decisions and ... Leer más

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  • The Bill of Rights

    A User's Guide

    de Linda R. Monk ...
    An engaging, accessible guide to the Bill of Rights for everyday citizens.With a Foreword by US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgIn The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to ... Leer más

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