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The Penry penalty : capital punishment and offenders with mental retardation
- Title
- The Penry penalty : capital punishment and offenders with mental retardation / Emily Fabrycki Reed.
- Author
- Reed, Emily F. (Emily Fabrycki), 1941-
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, ©1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HV8699.U5 R32 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- [xxii], 291 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-268) and index.
- Contents
- I. The Penry case -- Introduction -- The facts -- The decision -- What it means -- Notes -- II. Theoretical arguments against the death penalty for offenders with mental retardation -- Introduction -- Culpability and the per se definition argument -- The disporportionality argument -- The anti-deterrence argument -- The anti-retribution argument -- The societal consensus argument -- Argument from authority -- Overrepresentation or statistical argument -- Anti-mitigation argument -- Beyond mitigation : the anti-child -- Anti-right-from-wrong argument -- Anti-multiple claims argument -- Mainstreaming, individualism and the "right to execution" -- Anti-Georgia argument -- Summation : the mega-argument -- III. A death row dozen -- Introduction -- The executed -- Summary -- New dimensions in defense -- Notes -- IV. Survivors -- Introduction -- The spared -- Summary -- Notes -- V. Who dies? characteristics of the pardoned and the executed -- The "3-D's" of death penalty sentencing -- Sentence outcome -- Offender characteristics -- Circumstances of the crime -- Victim characteristics -- Summary -- Notes -- VI. Legislative initiatives to abolish the death penalty for offenders with mental retardation -- Introduction -- Georgia story -- The federal anti-drug abuse act of 1988 -- Other state statutes -- Legislation pending in the states -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0819190195
- 9780819190192
- 0819190209
- 9780819190208
- LCCN
- 92044124
- OCLC
- ocm27105515
- 27105515
- SCSB-1981634
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library