Capital Punishment in the United States

Name: Capital Punishment in the United States
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ISBN: 9783838355078

ISBN-10: 3838355075

ISBN-13: 9783838355078

Edition: N/A

Authors: Livia Calvet

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In 1972, after finding that Capital Punishment was used in an arbitrary manner and violated the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court imposed a nation-wide moratorium. Four years later, after the Gregg v. Georgia ruling which found Georgia's new death penalty status to be constitutional, most of the states which previously imposed capital punishment, reinstated it. The author argues that in its present form of administration, capital punishment is still applied in an arbitrary manner and violates the 'Equal Protection' and 'Due Process' clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Inadequate indigent defense and widespread racial bias in the prosecution and sentencing…

Book details

List price: $61.00
Publisher: Lambert Academic Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 72
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.17" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English