" Only by integrating scientific advancements with our ideals of justice can law remain a part of the living fiber of our civilization."'In recent years, defendants have proffered a multitude of …
In summer 2006, the US Supreme Court decided Clark v. Arizona.'In Clark, a seventeen- year-old defendant shot and killed police officer Jeffrey Moritz in Flagstaff, Arizona. 2 Moritz …
Recent years have seen an increasing acceptance of a link between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and criminal behavior, both in the general populace and in the criminal …
2 Washburn Law Journal[Vol. 58 including the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; the views ofmental health experts, medical professionals …
Despite the increased use of capital punishment in the United States, the American public has little real knowledge of how the death penalty is enforced. Media reports focus primarily …
The death penalty landscape has changed considerably since the 1998 first edition of this book. For example, six states that had the death penalty--Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland …
The high stakes of capital punishment demand heightened procedural safeguards: death is different, so the maxim goes. One such safeguard is the doctrine of individualized …
The [Eighth] Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society. 1 In 1986, the United States Supreme Court used …
CM Kabatchnick - Marq. Elder's Advisor, 2008 - HeinOnline
MARQUETTE ELDER'S ADVISOR" intense fear, helplessness, or horror." 2 PTSD is"[a] syndrome occurring after a person experiences trauma outside the range of normal human …