Mental Disability and the Death Penalty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Disability and the Death Penalty write by Michael L. Perlin. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Mental Disability and the Death Penalty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 mitigation evidence, in the ways that counsel is assigned, in the ways that jury determinations are often contaminated by stereotyped preconceptions of persons with mental disabilities, in the ways that cynical expert testimony reflects a propensity on the part of some experts to purposely distort their testimony in order to achieve desired ends. These questions are shockingly ignored at all levels of the criminal justice system, and by society in general. Here, Michael Perlin explores the relationship between mental disabilities and the death penalty and explains why and how this state of affairs has come to be, to explore why it is necessary to identify the factors that have contributed to this scandalous and shameful policy morass, to highlight the series of policy choices that need immediate remediation, and to offer some suggestions that might meaningfully ameliorate the situation. Using real cases to illustrate the ways in which the persons with mental disabilities are unable to receive fair treatment during death penalty trials, he demonstrates the depth of the problem and the way it’s been institutionalized so as to be an accepted part of our system. He calls for a new approach, and greater attention to the issues that have gone overlooked for so long.
The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability
The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability write by Edward A. Polloway. This book was released on 2013-08-01. The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Deadly Justice
Deadly Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deadly Justice write by Frank R. Baumgartner. This book was released on 2018. Deadly Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forty years and 1,400 executions after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty constitutional, eminent political scientist Frank Baumgartner and a team of younger scholars have collaborated to assess the empirical record and provide a definitive account of how the death penalty has been implemented. A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty shows that all the flaws that caused the Supreme Court to invalidate the death penalty in 1972 remain and indeed that new problems have arisen. Far from "perfecting the mechanism" of death, the modern system has failed.
Beyond Reason
Beyond Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Reason write by Human Rights Watch (Organization). This book was released on 2001. Beyond Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation" is a March 2001 document of Human Rights Watch that focuses on the execution of people with mental retardation in the United States. Human Rights Watch notes that 25 U.S. states permit capital punishment for offenders who are mentally retarded. The agency recommends that until capital punishment is completely abolished in the United States, offenders with mental retardation should be exempted from a sentence of death or execution.
Forensic Mental Health Assessments in Death Penalty Cases
Forensic Mental Health Assessments in Death Penalty Cases - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forensic Mental Health Assessments in Death Penalty Cases write by David DeMatteo. This book was released on 2011-03-29. Forensic Mental Health Assessments in Death Penalty Cases available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text provides an essential road map to forensic mental health assessments in death penalty cases for students and practitioners. The book integrates research with best practice recommendations, yielding a solid foundation of information related to capital punishment, death penalty litigation, and more.
