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.