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Justice denied : clemency appeals in death penalty cases / Cathleen Burnett.
Van Pelt Library KFM8365.C2 B87 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnett, Cathleen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--Missouri--History.
- Capital punishment.
- Clemency--Missouri--History.
- Clemency.
- History.
- Missouri.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 251 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- This first study of executive clemency petitions shows in dramatic detail how mistakes and miscarriages of justice often fail the condemned and victims alike.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The police investigation
- The prosecutor's misconduct
- The defense attorney
- The trial judge
- Appellate courts
- Governors' decisions: fail safe or fiction?
- The clemency alternative: justice denied.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1555535208
- 1555535216
- OCLC:
- 49500483
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