BOOKS: Streib’s Death Penalty in a Nutshell

Elon University School of Law’s Professor Victor Streib has released a new edi­tion of his book, Streib’s Death Penalty in a Nutshell. It cov­ers both the sub­stan­tive and the pro­ce­dur­al law of the death penal­ty and begins with argu­ments for and against the death penal­ty and an expla­na­tion of its basic con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenges and lim­i­ta­tions. Professor Streib cov­ers cap­i­tal crimes and defens­es, as well as tri­al lev­el and post tri­al pro­ce­dur­al issues. Other top­ics include race and gen­der bias, exe­cut­ing the inno­cent, and inter­na­tion­al and for­eign law issues. This book, which serves both as sup­ple­men­tal read­ing for death penal­ty cours­es and as a con­cise, nar­ra­tive expla­na­tion of death penal­ty law, is cur­rent as of July 2008. Copies of the book can be pur­chased here.

(V. Streib, ​“Streib’s Death Penalty in a Nutshell,” 3^rd ed., 2008). See also Books.