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Executing Teen Killers Again, David Bruck Sep 1985

Executing Teen Killers Again, David Bruck

David I. Bruck

No abstract provided.


Remedies To The Dilemma Of Death-Qualified Juries, Robert M. Berry Jul 1985

Remedies To The Dilemma Of Death-Qualified Juries, Robert M. Berry

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Johnson Jun 1985

Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Johnson

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Racial prejudice has come under increasingly close scrutiny during the past thirty years, yet its influence on the decisionmaking of criminal juries remains largely hidden from judicial and critical examination. In this Article, Professor Johnson takes a close look at this neglected area. She first sets forth a large body of social science research that reveals a widespread tendency among whites to convict black defendants in instances in which white defendants would be acquitted. Next, she argues that none of the existing techniques for eliminating the influence of racial bias on criminal trials adequately protects minority-race defendants. She contends that …


The Death Penalty: An Exchange, David Bruck May 1985

The Death Penalty: An Exchange, David Bruck

David I. Bruck

No abstract provided.


Capital Punishment: For Or Against, Jan Gorecki Feb 1985

Capital Punishment: For Or Against, Jan Gorecki

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Death Penalty -- A Debate by Ernest van den Haag and John Conrad


Capital Juries And The Fair Cross-Section Requirement: Modern Constitutional Reasoning In Jury Selection, John Coleman Ayers Jan 1985

Capital Juries And The Fair Cross-Section Requirement: Modern Constitutional Reasoning In Jury Selection, John Coleman Ayers

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Executing Youthful Offenders: The Unanswered Question In Eddings V. Oklahoma, Rona L. Just Jan 1985

Executing Youthful Offenders: The Unanswered Question In Eddings V. Oklahoma, Rona L. Just

Fordham Urban Law Journal

The juvenile justice system was created to "treat" and to "rehabilitate" the juvenile offender. But transfers to the adult criminal system allows for juvenile offenders to receive the death penalty for capital crimes. This Note examines the theories of punishment underlying the death penalty, briefly discusses the creation of the juvenile court system and the mechanism of juvenile transfer. This Note then discusses the development of the death penalty by examining Supreme Court cases which have considered state laws challenged under the eighth amendment as forms of cruel and unusual punishment. Supreme Court decisions which have extended constitutional guarantees to …