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Mental disability and the death penalty : the shame of the states /
"There is no question that the death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities. There is clear, systemic bias at all stages of the prosecution and the sentencing process -- in determining who is competent to be executed, in the assessment of mi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
c2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An introduction and the dilemma of factual innocence
- Sanism, pretextuality, the role of dignity, and therapeutic jurisprudence
- Future dangerousness and the death penalty
- Mental disability evidence and mitigation
- Competency to be executed : the case of mental retardation
- Competency to be executed : the case of mental illness
- Competency to be executed : the question of medication
- Neuroimaging and the death penalty
- The role of jurors, prosecutors, and judges
- The death penalty, mental disability, and adequacy of counsel
- The death penalty and international human rights law.