"Death is Different" Jurisprudence and LWOP: Rethinking Life Without Parole in American Criminal Justice

Description

My thesis critically examines the role that the U.S. Supreme Court's "death is different" jurisprudence has played in the development of life without parole (LWOP) sentencing.

Links & Downloads

1. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1037
2. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2047&context=cmc_theses

Tags

life without parole

capital sentencing

LWOP

death penalty

capital punishment

jury decision-making

Criminal Procedure

Law

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cmc_theses-2047
Date	01 January 2015
Creators	Evrigenis, Amelia
Publisher	Scholarship @ Claremont
Source Sets	Claremont Colleges
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	CMC Senior Theses
Rights	© 2014 Amelia Evrigenis, default