Death Penalty Cases

BARRY LATZER is Professor of Government at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a member of the Ph.D. and M.A. faculties in Criminal Justice at the Graduate School and University Center. He received a law degree (J.D.) from Fordham University (1985) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1977). Professor Latzer is also known for his work on state constitutional law, which is the subject of two of his books, State Constitutional Criminal Law (Clark, Boardman, Callaghan, 1995), and State Constitutions and Criminal Justice (Greenwood, 1991). He has published over two dozen scholarly articles and writes a continuing series of articles for the Criminal Law Bulletin, entitled "State Constitutional Developments."

Preface
Acknowledgements
Ch. 1 Capital Punishment: The Law and the Issues
Ch. 2 Cruel and Unusual as Applied — Furman V. Georgia (1972)
Ch. 3 Not Inherently Unconstitutional — Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
Ch. 4 Texas Death Penalty Procedures — Jurek v. Texas (1976)
Ch. 5 Rape and the Death Penalty—Coker v. Georgia (1977)
Ch. 6 Mandatory Death Penalty—Woodson v. North Carolina (1976)
Ch. 7 "Mandatory" Death Statutes — Blystone v. Pennsylvania (1990)
Ch. 8 Vague Aggravating Factors — Godfrey v. Georgia (1980)
Ch. 9 Mitigating Evidence — Lockett v. Ohio (1978);
Ch. 10 Jury Unanimity on Mitigating Evidence — McKoy v. North Carolina (1990)
Ch. 11 Murder Defendants Who Did Not Kill (I) — Enmund v. Florida (1982)
Ch. 12 Murder Defendants Who Did Not Kill (II)—Tison v. Arizona (1987)
Ch. 13 Jurors Opposed to Capital Punishment—Witherspoon v. Illinois (1968)
Ch. 14 Selecting the "Death-Qualified" Jury — Lockhart v. McCree (1986)
Ch. 15 Selecting an Unbiased Jury — Turner v. Murray (1986)
Ch. 16 Victim Impact Evidence — Payne v. Tennessee (1991)
Ch. 17 Jury Instructions On Parole-Ineligibility — Simmons v. South Carolina (1994)
Ch. 18 The Right to Effective Counsel — Burger v. Kemp (1987)
Ch. 19 Capital Sentencing by Judges — Spaziano v. Florida (1984)
Ch. 20 Proportional Sentencing Review — Pulley v. Harris (1984)
Ch. 21 Death Sentences and Double Jeopardy — Arizona v. Rumsey (1984)
Ch. 22 Juveniles May Be Executed — Stanford v. Kentucky (1989)
Ch. 23 Insane Convicts May Not Be Executed — Ford v. Wainwright (1986)
Ch. 24 The Mentally Retarded May Not Be Executed —Atkins v. Virginia (2002)
Ch. 25 Race Discrimination and Capital Punishment — McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
Ch. 26 "Innocence" And Federal Habeas Corpus — Herrera v. Collins (1993)
Appendix A: Facts and Figures on Murder and the Death Penalty
Appendix B: Selected Death Penalty Statutes