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Executing the mentally ill : the criminal justice system and the case of Alvin Ford / Kent S. Miller, Michael L. Radelet.

Title
Executing the mentally ill : the criminal justice system and the case of Alvin Ford / Kent S. Miller, Michael L. Radelet.
Author
Miller, Kent S.
Publication
Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1993.

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Radelet, Michael L.
Description
xiii, 200 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Ford, Alvin Bernard, -1991 > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Trials (Murder) > Florida
  • Capital punishment > United States
  • Insanity (Law) > United States
  • Death row inmates > Mental health > United States
  • Competency to be executed
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.
Contents
Drawing the lines: who lives and who dies? -- An introduction to Alvin Ford -- Family background, the crime, and trial: 1953-1974 -- Anticipating and enduring the first death warrant: 1975-1981 -- Psychological deterioration and the road to the Supreme Court: 1982-1986 -- Physicians, mental health professionals, and the death penalty -- Alvin Ford and the courts: additional issues -- Competence for execution: the Supreme Court speaks -- Back to federal court: the 1988 hearing and beyond -- The cure that kills.
ISBN
  • 0803951493 (cloth)
  • 0803951507 (paper)
LCCN
^^^93000999^
OCLC
27897871
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library