NEW RESOURCE: The Death Penalty: Constitutional Issues, Commentaries and Case Briefs

The Death Penalty: Constitutional Issues, Commentaries and Case Briefs is a new textbook that brings together many of the legal issues of the death penalty and presents them in an easy-to-digest form. The book provides a brief retrospective analysis of capital punishment over the past two centuries, and then details the current status of the U.S. death penalty. With a chapter that focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court cases Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia, as well as chapters on race, the mentally impaired, representation, appeals, and other issues, this new resource is a comprehensive look inside America’s death penalty debate and the issues that shape it. The book was authored by Rolando V. del Carmen, Scott Vollum, Kelly Cheeseman, Durant Frantzen, and Claudia San Miguel. (Matthew Bender & Company, a member of the LexisNexis Group, 2005). See Books.