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Killing Justice in the Lone Star State : Calling Time on Texas Death Row.
Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases (and some post-execution ones).
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hook :
Waterside Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Copyright and publication details
- Table of Contents
- About the author
- Publisher's note
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Preface
- Shock, trauma and disbelief
- Still the pain lingers
- Introduction
- A few notes from the UK
- Timothy Evans
- Some other notorious UK cases
- Mahoud Mattan
- Another worrying case from my home city
- Could capital punishment ever return to the UK?
- A brief worldwide perspective
- Capital punishment in the USA
- Miscarriages of justice in the USA
- Could capital punishment be abolished in the USA?
- A deeper malaise?
- Focusing on Texas
- Death penalty reform in Texas
- Just imagine
- What leads to a miscarriage of justice?
- The Case of Cameron Todd Willingham
- Evidence and so-called evidence
- The evidence at the trial
- Re-investigation
- Formal re-examination of the case
- The Case of Darlie Routier
- A most tragic case
- 'Silly string'
- False directions
- Problems with experts
- False conviction
- Hope for justice yet
- The Law of Parties
- Purpose of the law
- The law of parties and the death penalty
- Reckless indifference to human life
- Postscript
- The Texas Seven
- Randy Ethan Halprin
- Update
- Patrick Murphy
- A hostile policy
- The Case of Jeffrey Wood
- Outline of the facts
- What the jury didn't hear
- 'Dr Death'
- The victim's father
- A plea by the condemned man's sister
- The Case of Paul Storey
- A legal battle
- Differing versions of the story
- Unreliable memories and questionable realities
- Dissenting voices
- Life on Death Row: A Personal Account
- The Polunsky Unit
- Blaine Milam's first-hand account
- Fundamental human rights
- The Case of Kenneth Foster Jr
- 'A foolish mistake'
- Trial defects
- Flaws in the prosecutions case
- The defence version and juror misconduct
- The missing evidence.
- Injustice at the sentencing phase
- Constitutional deficiencies
- What a new trial can show
- Kenneth Foster today
- The Case of George Stinney and Other Juveniles
- An iconic case
- A most hostile arena
- Seventy years of injustice
- A dubious claim to fame
- More on juveniles
- Roper v Simmons
- Other landmark rulings
- International considerations
- A move for entirely new legislation
- The Beijing Rules
- The Case of Ruben Cantu
- Cantu's early life
- Shaky identification evidence
- The case goes cold
- Retractions
- Lockdown Menu: Food on Death Row
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Total calories per day
- The condemned prisoner's last meal
- The Case of Carlos DeLuna
- The trial
- DeLuna's Death Row interview
- Statement by the victim's family
- Some Other Cases of Concern
- Rodney Reed
- Requests to re-evaluate Reed's case
- A new trial
- David Wayne Spence
- Siren voices
- Gary Lee Graham
- Worrying identification evidence
- A public backlash
- Claude Howard Jones
- Splitting hairs
- Evidence of a co-accused
- Serious doubts
- Lester Bower
- Richard Allen Masterson
- Concealed evidence
- Robert Lynn Pruett
- Problems with informants again ...
- Larry Ray Swearingen
- Suspect evidence
- A fresh twist
- National and International Standards
- Role of the Supreme Court
- Key rulings and small margins
- International trends against capital punishment
- Is some shock to the system needed?
- International standards for the treatment of prisoners
- Civil and political rights
- Prevention of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment
- Disability
- Rising to the challenge
- Epilogue
- Playing God
- Hypocrisy and judicial murder
- Sources and Further Reading
- Index
- American Evil: The Psychology of Serial Killers
- Back cover.