Add to ORKGNumerous arguments have been raised to halt the death penalty, including constitutional claims such as ineffective assistance of counsel, equal protection, right to trial by jury, and cruel and unusual punishment. The winning argument, however, in Evans v. State, a Maryland death penalty appeal, was based not on constitutional or criminal law, but rather Administrative Law. A death row inmate attacked the validity of the procedures for administering lethal injection capital punishment because the Maryland Department of Corrections had not followed the proper statutory procedures for adopting the regulation which set forth the capital punishment process. In order for a Maryland agency to adopt a valid regulation, the agency must follow the p...
In the case of Furman v. Georgia (1972), the Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty on the grounds...
A Review of The Death Penalty in the Nineties: An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punis...
This article arrives at the surprising conclusion that a meaningful Eighth Amendment death penalty j...
In this Article, I describe and analyze the State of Maryland\u27s 2009 death penalty law. This law ...
Laurie JohnsonAmerican comedian Dan Miller once said that “the death penalty is becoming a way of li...
Death penalty litigation that reaches the Supreme Court now causes at least as much consternation as...
In the world of capital punishment, the oft-repeated refrain “death is different” stands for the not...
In the forty year history of the Supreme Court\u27s modern death penalty jurisprudence, two cases — ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has held that the Alabama death penalty statute which prohibi...
In the 1972 case of Furman v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court invalidated virtually all exi...
This Note focuses on the history of Alabama‘s death sentencing law as a window into the rationale re...
Does death row incarceration for upwards of thirty years or more impermissibly impose the suffering ...
Four years after Furmanv. Georgia, the Supreme Court has resolved the major question left unanswered...
Over the last decade, the most important events in American death pen-alty law have occurred outside...
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor\u27s Council Report
In the case of Furman v. Georgia (1972), the Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty on the grounds...
A Review of The Death Penalty in the Nineties: An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punis...
This article arrives at the surprising conclusion that a meaningful Eighth Amendment death penalty j...
In this Article, I describe and analyze the State of Maryland\u27s 2009 death penalty law. This law ...
Laurie JohnsonAmerican comedian Dan Miller once said that “the death penalty is becoming a way of li...
Death penalty litigation that reaches the Supreme Court now causes at least as much consternation as...
In the world of capital punishment, the oft-repeated refrain “death is different” stands for the not...
In the forty year history of the Supreme Court\u27s modern death penalty jurisprudence, two cases — ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has held that the Alabama death penalty statute which prohibi...
In the 1972 case of Furman v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court invalidated virtually all exi...
This Note focuses on the history of Alabama‘s death sentencing law as a window into the rationale re...
Does death row incarceration for upwards of thirty years or more impermissibly impose the suffering ...
Four years after Furmanv. Georgia, the Supreme Court has resolved the major question left unanswered...
Over the last decade, the most important events in American death pen-alty law have occurred outside...
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor\u27s Council Report
In the case of Furman v. Georgia (1972), the Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty on the grounds...
A Review of The Death Penalty in the Nineties: An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punis...
This article arrives at the surprising conclusion that a meaningful Eighth Amendment death penalty j...