Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.
Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey, Race, and the American Death Penalty connects the history of the American death penalty to the case of Warren McCleskey.
Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier is a Professor of Law at City University of New York School of Law. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University. Before joining the CUNY Law faculty, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., and he taught at Tulane School of Law and Arizona State University College of Law. For several years, he was a staff attorney at the Arizona Capital Representation Project. Prof. Kirchmeier is a member and former Chair of the Capital Punishment Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and has appeared before a New York Assembly joint committee regarding the reinstatement of the New York death penalty. He is the author of numerous law review articles on the subject of criminal procedure, constitutional law, and the death penalty.
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* Preface to the Paperback Edition * Preface * Introduction * Part A - Prologue * Prologue: America's Marietta * Part B - A Killing in Georgia * Chapter 1: A Death in Dixie * Chapter 2: The Trial of Warren McCleskey * Chapter 3: Offie Evans and McCleskey v. Zant * Part C - American Death Penalty History And the Courts * Chapter 4: The First Limits: The Early American Death Penalty through the 1850s * Chapter 5: Wars and Death Penalty Abolition: The Civil War Through Early 1900s * Chapter 6: A Time of Change: American Society and the Death Penalty 1950s through the 1960s * Chapter 7: Into the Courthouse: The 1970s Abolition Strategy * Chapter 8: A New Era: A New U.S. Death Penalty Returns in the Late 1970s * Chapter 9: Starting Over: Executions Resume in the 1970s and 1980s * Part D - Lynching, Race, and McCleskey v. Kemp * Chapter 10: Lynching and Race in America * Chapter 11: Race and the Courts * Chapter 12: Warren McCleskey and the Baldus Study * Chapter 13: The Supreme Court and McCleskey v Kemp * Part E - Execution * Chapter 14: Mitigation and Reform * Chapter 15: Warren McCleskey and the Electric Chair * Chapter 16: Other American Execution Methods * Part F - The Capital Punishment Debate Moves Outside the Courts after McCleskey * Chapter 17: The Unstoppable Death Penalty After McCleskey into the early 1990s * Chapter 18: New Abolitionist Voices in the 1990s * Chapter 19: Innocence and the American Death Penalty * Chapter 20: A Moratorium Movement Emerges in the 1990s * Part G - McCleskey's Legacy in the Early Twenty-First Century * Chapter 21: The Early Twenty-First Century Death Penalty in the Courts * Chapter 22: The Early Twenty-First Century Death Penalty in U.S. Politics * Chapter 23: Escaping from Imprisonment of the Past * Part H - Epilogue * Epilogue: Warren McCleskey's Case and the American Death Penalty Today
* Preface to the Paperback Edition * Preface * Introduction * Part A - Prologue * Prologue: America's Marietta * Part B - A Killing in Georgia * Chapter 1: A Death in Dixie * Chapter 2: The Trial of Warren McCleskey * Chapter 3: Offie Evans and McCleskey v. Zant * Part C - American Death Penalty History And the Courts * Chapter 4: The First Limits: The Early American Death Penalty through the 1850s * Chapter 5: Wars and Death Penalty Abolition: The Civil War Through Early 1900s * Chapter 6: A Time of Change: American Society and the Death Penalty 1950s through the 1960s * Chapter 7: Into the Courthouse: The 1970s Abolition Strategy * Chapter 8: A New Era: A New U.S. Death Penalty Returns in the Late 1970s * Chapter 9: Starting Over: Executions Resume in the 1970s and 1980s * Part D - Lynching, Race, and McCleskey v. Kemp * Chapter 10: Lynching and Race in America * Chapter 11: Race and the Courts * Chapter 12: Warren McCleskey and the Baldus Study * Chapter 13: The Supreme Court and McCleskey v Kemp * Part E - Execution * Chapter 14: Mitigation and Reform * Chapter 15: Warren McCleskey and the Electric Chair * Chapter 16: Other American Execution Methods * Part F - The Capital Punishment Debate Moves Outside the Courts after McCleskey * Chapter 17: The Unstoppable Death Penalty After McCleskey into the early 1990s * Chapter 18: New Abolitionist Voices in the 1990s * Chapter 19: Innocence and the American Death Penalty * Chapter 20: A Moratorium Movement Emerges in the 1990s * Part G - McCleskey's Legacy in the Early Twenty-First Century * Chapter 21: The Early Twenty-First Century Death Penalty in the Courts * Chapter 22: The Early Twenty-First Century Death Penalty in U.S. Politics * Chapter 23: Escaping from Imprisonment of the Past * Part H - Epilogue * Epilogue: Warren McCleskey's Case and the American Death Penalty Today
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