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The Two Percent: How Florida’S Capital Punishment System Defies The Eighth Amendment, Sofia Perla
The Two Percent: How Florida’S Capital Punishment System Defies The Eighth Amendment, Sofia Perla
FIU Law Review
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An Empirical Assessment Of Georgia's Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, Lauren Sudeall
An Empirical Assessment Of Georgia's Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, Lauren Sudeall
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In Atkins v. Virginia, the Supreme Court held that execution of people with intellectual disabilities violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. In doing so, the Court explicitly left to the states the question of which procedures would be used to identify such defendants as exempt from the death penalty. More than a decade before Atkins, Georgia was the first state to bar execution of people with intellectual disability. Yet, of the states that continue to impose the death penalty as a punishment for capital murder, Georgia is the only state that requires capital defendants to prove …
The Death Knell For The Death Penalty: Judge Carney's Order To Kill Capital Punishment Rings Loud Enough To Reach The Supreme Court, Alyssa Hughes
The Death Knell For The Death Penalty: Judge Carney's Order To Kill Capital Punishment Rings Loud Enough To Reach The Supreme Court, Alyssa Hughes
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
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Victim Harm, Retributivism And Capital Punishment: A Philosophy Critique Of Payne V. Tennessee , R. P. Peerenboom
Victim Harm, Retributivism And Capital Punishment: A Philosophy Critique Of Payne V. Tennessee , R. P. Peerenboom
Pepperdine Law Review
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Women And The Death Penalty: Racial Disparities And Differences, Harry Greenlee, Shelia P. Greenlee
Women And The Death Penalty: Racial Disparities And Differences, Harry Greenlee, Shelia P. Greenlee
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
The death penalty in America has been studied, discussed, and written about extensively. The vast majority of researchers, however, have focused their study of the death penalty, or capital punishment, on male prisoners. This article examines the data related to women on death row since 1973, with particular attention to similar problems that have been documented for men, while highlighting racial differences and/or racial disparities where found. The subjects were 157 women who received death row sentences, forty-nine women currently on death row, and the eleven women executed since 1973. The data demonstrated that some racial disparities do exist with …
Capital Punishment: 21st Century Lynching, Serena L. Hargrove
Capital Punishment: 21st Century Lynching, Serena L. Hargrove
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
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