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The Death Penalty In The Nineties: An Examination Of The Modern System Of Capital Punishment, Thomas L. Shaevsky
The Death Penalty In The Nineties: An Examination Of The Modern System Of Capital Punishment, Thomas L. Shaevsky
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Death Penalty in the Nineties: An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punishment by Welsh S. White
Death-Innocence And The Law Of Habeas Corpus, Stephen P. Garvey
Death-Innocence And The Law Of Habeas Corpus, Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The legal space between a sentence of death and the execution chamber is occupied by an intricate network of procedural rules. On average, it currently takes between six and seven years to traverse this space, but this interval is expected to shrink. Federal habeas corpus, an important part of this space, is studded more and more with procedural obstacles that bar the federal courts from entertaining the merits of a defendant's claims. By design, these barriers foreclose federal review in order to protect the state's interests in the finality of its criminal convictions, as well as to display healthy respect …