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Capital Punishment: A Model For Reform, Charles E. Glasscock Jan 1969

Capital Punishment: A Model For Reform, Charles E. Glasscock

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of Capital Punishment, R. Rees Kinney Jan 1966

In Defense Of Capital Punishment, R. Rees Kinney

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Capital Punishment Reconsidered, William O. Reichert Jan 1959

Capital Punishment Reconsidered, William O. Reichert

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Due Process-Right Of Condemned Prisoner To A Hearing On Claim Of Supervening Insanity, Robert P. Griffin S.Ed. Jun 1950

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Right Of Condemned Prisoner To A Hearing On Claim Of Supervening Insanity, Robert P. Griffin S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner was convicted of murder in a Georgia court and sentenced to die by electrocution. He made application to the governor to postpone execution on the ground that he had become insane after conviction. The governor, acting under authority of a state statute, appointed three physicians who conducted an examination of petitioner and found him sane. Thereupon, petitioner filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a state court contending that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entitled him to a hearing on his insanity claim before a judicial or administrative tribunal at which he could …


Criminal Law And Procedure - Inexperience Of Defense Attorney As Denial Of Fair Trial Jan 1935

Criminal Law And Procedure - Inexperience Of Defense Attorney As Denial Of Fair Trial

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to be electrocuted. He now claims he was denied a fair trial as the attorney appointed by the circuit court to defend him was inexperienced, having practiced only thirteen months. Held, that inasmuch as the nature and extent of the attorney's practice was not shown and the record showed the defense was carried on in a highly creditable manner, the inexperience of defendant's attorney was not a denial of a fair trial. McGuire v. State, ( Ark. 1934) 74 S. w. (2d) 235.