Prerequisite: none
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Credits
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Offered
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The study of the death penalty in the United States, including: the history of capital punishment; arguments supporting and opposing capital punishment; constitutional issues under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments; the role of mitigating and aggravating evidence in guiding the sentencer’s decision to impose; exclusion of jurors; the use of psychiatric experts in capital trials’ state post-conviction remedies; the scope of federal habeas corpus review; constitutional challenges to the arbitrary imposition of the death sentence to those deserving death; the recently-expanded federal death penalty; and international law and capital punishment.
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2
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Irregularly
(next '07-'08) |
