Encyclopedia of capital punishment in the United States
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Abandonment Defense --
Abduction --
Abettor --
Abscond --
Absentia --
Abu-Jamal Mumia --
Access to Counsel --
Accessory After the Fact --
Accessory Before the Fact --
Accomplice --
Accomplice Liability --
Accusation --
Accusatory Body --
Acquittal --
Actual Innocence Claim --
Actus Reus --
Adams v. Texas --
Adamson v. California --
Admissible Evidence --
Adversarial Criminal Justice System --
Adverse or Hostile Witness --
Advisory Jury --
Affirm --
Affirmative Defenses --
Afghanistan --
African Americans and Capital Punishment --
Age and Capital Punishment --
Age of Felon Mitigator --
Age of Victim Aggravator --
Aggravated Battery Aggravator --
Aggravating Circumstances --
Aider and Abettor --
Ake v. Oklahoma --
Akins v. Texas --
Alabama --
Alaska --
Alaskans Against the Death Penalty --
Albania --
Alberty v. United States --
Alcohol or Drug Abuse --
Alcorta v. Texas --
Aldridge v. United States --
Alexander v. United States --
Alford Plea --
Algeria --
Alibi Defense --
Alito, Samuel Anthony Jr. --
Allen Charge --
Allison v. United States --
Allocution --
Alternate Jurors --
Alternative Methods of Execution --
Amadeo v. Zant --
American Bar Association --
American Civil Liberties Union --
Amicus Curiae --
Amnesty International --
Andersen v. Treat --
Andersen v. United States --
Anderson, Melanie --
Andersonville Prison Deaths --
Andorra --
Andres v. United States --
Andrews v. Swartz --
Angola --
Another Proximate Cause Mitigator --
Antigua and Barbuda --
Apelt Brothers --
Appeal --
Appeal by Prosecutor --
Appeal in Forma Pauperis --
Appellant --
Appellate Review of Conviction and Death Sentence --
Appellate Rules of Procedure --
Appellee --
Application for Stay of Execution --
Appointment of Experienced Counsel --
Arave v. Creech --
Arbitrary and Capricious --
Arcene, James --
Argentina --
Arizona --
Arizona v. Rumsey --
Arkansas --
Armed Robbery --
Armenia --
Arnold v. North Carolina --
Arraignment --
Arrest --
Arson --
Arson Aggravator --
Aryan Brotherhood Prosecution --
Ashe v. Valotta --
Asians and Capital Punishment --
Assault and Battery --
Assignment of Error --
Atkins v. Virginia --
Attorney General --
Attorney-Client Privilege --
Atzerodt, George --
Australia --
Austria --
Automatic Review of Death Sentence --
Autrefois Acquit or Convict --
Avery v. Alabama --
Ayers v. Belmontes --
Azerbaijan --
Bahamas --
Bahrain --
Bail --
Baker, Lena --
Baldwin v. Alabama --
Ball United States (II) --
Ball v. United States (I) --
Bangladesh --
Banks v. Dretke --
Barbados --
Barclay v. Florida --
Barefoot v. Estelle --
Barfield, Velma Margie --
Battery --
Beard v. Banks --
Beauchamp, Jereboam Orville --
Beck v. Alabama --
Becker, Charles --
Beets, Betty Lou --
Belarus --
Belgium --
Belize --
Bell v. Cone (I) --
Bell v. Cone (II) --
Bell v. Ohio --
Bell v. Thompson --
Bench Conference --
Bench Trial --
Benin --
Benson v. United States --
Bergemann v. Backer --
Bermuda.
Best Evidence Rule --
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt --
Bhutan --
Bibliography --
Biddle v. Perovich --
Bifurcation of Guilt and Penalty Phases --
Bill of Attainder Clause --
Bill of Particulars --
Bill of Rights --
Billy the Kid --
Bind Over --
Binding Authority --
Binding/Nonbinding Jury Sentencing Determination --
Bird v. United States (I) --
Bird v. United States (II) --
Bittaker, Lawrence --
Black, Hugo L. --
Blackmun, Harry A. --
Bolivia --
Bonin, William --
Booth v. Maryland --
Born to Raise Hell --
Bosnia-Herzegovina --
Boston Strangler --
Botched Execution --
Botswana --
Boulden v. Holman --
Boyde v. California --
Boykin v. Alabama --
Bracy v. Gramley --
Bradshaw v. Richey --
Bradshaw v. Stumpf --
Brady v. Maryland --
Bram v. United States --
Brandeis, Louis D. --
Brazil --
Breard v. Greene --
Brennan, William J. Jr. --
Brewer, David Josiah --
Breyer, Stephen G. --
British Democratic Dictatorship Party --
Brooks, Charlie --
Brothers --
Brown, Debra Denise --
Brown, Henry B. --
Brown, John --
Brown v. Allen --
Brown v. Mississippi --
Brown v. New Jersey --
Brown v. Payton --
Brown v. Sanders --
Brown v. United States (I) --
Brown v. United States (II) --
Brunei --
Buchalter v. New York --
Buchanan v. Angelone --
Buenoano, Judias V. --
Bulgaria --
Bullington v. Missouri --
Bundy, Theodore --
Burden of Proof at Guilt Phase --
Burden of Proof at Penalty Phase --
Burger v. Kemp --
Burger, Warren Earl --
Burglary --
Burglary Aggravator --
Burkina Faso --
Burma --
Burns v. Wilson --
Burton, Harold Hitz --
Burundi --
Bus Hijacking Aggravator --
Bush v. Kentucky --
Butler, Pierce --
Butler v. McKellar --
Cabana v. Bullock --
Cage v. Louisiana --
Calderon v. Ashmus --
Calderon v. Coleman --
Calderon v. Thompson --
Caldwell v. Mississippi --
California --
California v. Brown --
California v. Ramos --
Calton v. Utah --
Cambodia --
Cameras in Courtroom --
Cameras in Execution Chamber --
Cameroon --
Campaign to End the Death Penalty --
Campbell, Charles --
Canada --
Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty --
Capacity Substantially Impaired Mitigator --
Capano, Thomas --
Cape Verde --
Capital Crime --
Capital Felon --
Capital Punishment --
Capital Punishment in Colonial America --
Capital Punishment Jurisdictions --
Capital Punishment Opinions Written by Matthews --
Cardona, Ana Marie --
Cardoza, Benjamin N. --
Carjacking Aggravator --
Carpenter, David --
Carter v. Texas --
Carver v. United States --
Case-in-Chief --
Casey, James P. --
Cassell v. Texas --
Catholics Against Capital Punishment --
Central African Republic --
Certificate of Appealability --
Certified Question --
Certiorari, Writ of --
Chad --
Challenge for Cause --
Chamber --
Chambers v. Florida --
Change of Venue --
Chaplain --
Character Evidence --
Charging the Jury --
Charlotte Serial Murders --
Chase, Salmon P. --
Chessman v. Teets --
Chicago Labor Riots of 1886 --
Chief Justice --
Child Abuse Mitigator.
Child Killers --
Child or Elderly Abuse Aggravator --
Chile --
China --
Choosing Method of Execution --
CIA Murders --
Circumstantial Evidence --
Citizens Against Homicides --
Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty --
Ciucci v. Illinois --
Clark, Tom C. --
Clarke, John Hessin --
Class and Capital Punishment --
Clemency --
Clemons v. Mississippi --
Cleveland State University Racial Murders --
Clifford, Nathan --
Closing Argument --
Coalition of Arizonans to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Co-Defendant --
Co-Defendant Spared Death Penalty Mitigator --
Coker v. Georgia --
Cole, Carroll Edward --
Coleman and Brown --
Coleman v. Alabama (I) --
Coleman v. Alabama (II) --
Coleman v. Tennessee --
Coleman v. Thompson --
Collateral Attack --
Colombia --
Coloradans Against the Death Penalty --
Colorado --
Common Design Rule --
Common Law and Capital Punishment --
Communication and Contact with Nationals of the Sending State --
Commutation of Sentence --
Comoros --
Competency Hearing --
Competency of the Defendant to Be a Witness --
Competency to Stand Trial --
Competent Court --
Complaint --
Complicity --
Compulsory Process Clause --
Compulsory Self-Incrimination --
Concert of Action Theory --
Concurrent Jurisdiction --
Concurrent Sentences --
Concurring Opinion --
Conditional Plea --
Confederate Hangings at Gainesville --
Confession --
Confession of Error --
Confrontation Clause --
Congo (Democratic Republic) --
Congo (Republic) --
Connecticut --
Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Consecutive Sentences --
Consent --
Conspiracy --
Constitution --
Constitution Party --
Constitutional Error --
Constitutionality of the Death Penalty --
Continuing Threat Aggravator --
Continuing Threat Mitigator --
Cook Islands --
Cook v. United States --
Cooper v. Oklahoma --
Cooperation with Authorities Mitigator --
Cora, Charles --
Coram Nobis --
Cornell Death Penalty Project --
Corpus Delicti --
Correction Officer Aggravator --
Correctional Institution --
Costa Rica --
Costs of Capital Punishment --
Côte D'Ivoire --
Count --
Court of Appeals --
Court-Appointed Counsel --
Courts of General Jurisdiction --
Courts of Limited Jurisdiction --
Craemer v. Washington --
Crimes Not Involving Death --
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation --
Criminal Justice System --
Criminal Record Mitigator --
Croatia --
Crooker v. California --
Cross v. Burke --
Cross v. United States --
Cross-Examination of Witness --
Crossley v. California --
Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause --
Crumpton v. United States --
Cuba --
Curtis, Benjamin R. --
Custodial Interrogation --
Cyanide Gas --
Cyprus --
Czech Republic --
Czolgosz, Leon --
Daily Routine of Death Row Inmates --
Dakota Executions --
Darcy v. Handy --
Darden v. Wainwright --
Davis, David --
Davis v. Burke --
Davis v. Georgia --
Davis v. United States (I) --
Davis v. United States (II) --
Dawson v. Delaware.
Day, William R. --
Deadlocked Jury --
Death Automatic Jurisdictions --
Death Chamber --
Death Discretionary Jurisdictions --
Death Penalty Charging Discretion --
Death Penalty Clinic --
Death Penalty Focus of California --
Death Penalty Information Center --
Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project --
Death Penalty Notice --
Death Penalty Representation Project --
Death Penalty Statutes --
Death Row --
Death Warrant --
Death Watch Cell --
Death-Eligible Offenses --
Death-Qualified Jury --
Deck v. Missouri --
Dedication --
Default --
Delaware --
Deliberation --
Delo v. Lashley --
Demonstrative Evidence --
Demosthenes v. Baal --
Denmark --
Deposition --
DeSalvo, Albert --
Deterrence Theory of Capital Punishment --
Direct Examination of Witness --
Directed Verdict --
Discovery --
Discretion to Seek the Death Penalty --
Discretionary Review --
Discrimination Aggravator --
Discrimination in Grand or Petit Jury Selection --
Disposal of Executed Corpse --
Disrupting Government Function Aggravator --
Dissenting Opinion --
District of Columbia --
Djibouti --
DNA Evidence --
Dobbert v. Florida --
Dobbs v. Zant --
Dominica --
Dominican Republic --
Double Jeopardy Clause --
Double-Counting Aggravators --
Douglas, William O. --
Drive-by-Shooting Aggravator --
Drug-Trafficking Aggravator --
Dual Sovereignty --
Due Process Clause --
Dugan, Eva --
Dugger v. Adams --
Duncan v. Missouri --
Duress --
Durham Rule --
Echols, Damien Wayne --
Ecuador --
Eddings v. Oklahoma --
Effective Assistance of Counsel --
Egypt --
Eighth Amendment --
El Salvador --
Elected Official Aggravator --
Electrocution --
Elements of a Crime --
Elk v. United States --
Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States --
Engel, George --
England --
Enmund v. Florida --
Equal Justice USA --
Equal Protection Clause --
Equatorial Guinea --
Eritrea --
Error --
Error, Writ of --
Escape --
Escape Aggravator --
Espinosa v. Florida --
Espionage --
Estelle v. Smith --
Estonia --
Ethiopia --
Eubanks v. Louisiana --
European Union Memorandum on the Death Penalty --
Evidence Rules --
Ex Parte Bollman (I) --
Ex Parte Bollman (II) --
Ex Parte Crow Dog --
Ex Parte Gon-Shay-Ee --
Ex Parte Gordon --
Ex Parte Johnson --
Ex Parte Milligan --
Ex Parte Quirin --
Ex Parte Spies --
Ex Parte Wells --
Ex Post Facto Clause --
Examination of Witness --
Excessive Bail Clause --
Excessive Punishment --
Exclusionary Rule --
Exculpatory Evidence --
Executing a Capital Felon More Than Once --
Execution Before Expiration of Prior Prison Sentence --
Execution Chamber --
Execution Methods --
Execution Option Jurisdictions --
Executioner --
Executive Clemency --
Exhaustion of State Remedies Doctrine --
Expiration of Execution Date --
Explosives Aggravator --
Extradition --
Extreme Duress Mitigator --
Extreme Mental or Emotional Disturbance Mitigator --
Family and Friends' Testimony.
Family Background Mitigator --
Faulder, Joseph Stanley --
Federal Bureau of Investigation --
Federal Government --
Federal Law Question --
Felder, Sammie --
Felker v. Turpin --
Felony --
Felony Murder Rule --
Female Serial Killer --
Ferguson v. Georgia --
Ferrell, Rodrick --
Field, Stephen J. --
Fielden v. Illinois --
Fifth Amendment --
Fiji --
Fikes v. Alabama --
Film Depictions of Capital Punishment --
Finland --
Finley v. California --
Firefighter Aggravator --
Firing Squad --
Fischer, Adolph --
Fish, Albert Hamilton --
Fisher v. United States --
Fla. Code ʹ 901.26 (3) Recognition of International Treaties Act: --
Flight 629 --
Florida --
Florida v. Nixon --
Ford v. Wainwright --
Foreign Nationals and Capital Punishment --
Former Jeopardy --
Fourteenth Amendment --
Fourth Amendment --
France --
Francis v. Resweber --
Frank v. Mangum --
Frankfurter, Felix --
Franklin v. Lynaugh --
Franklin v. South Carolina --
Freeway Killer --
Frequency of Executions --
Frequency of Murder --
Fruits of the Poisonous Tree --
Fugate, Caril Ann --
Fuller, Melville W. --
Furman v. Georgia --
Future Dangerousness Aggravator --
Future Dangerousness Mitigator --
Gabon --
Gacy, John Wayne --
Gainsville Ripper Murders --
Gambia --
Gang Member Aggravator --
Gardner v. Florida --
Garfield's Assassination --
Gee Jon --
Gender and Capital Punishment --
Georgia --
Georgia (Country) --
Germany --
Ghana --
Gibson v. Mississippi --
Gilmore, Gary --
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader --
Godfrey v. Georgia --
Godinez v. Moran --
Goldberg, Arthur J. --
Gooch v. United States --
Gordon, Nathaniel --
Gourko v. United States --
Graham, Barbara --
Graham, Jack Gilbert --
Graham v. Collins --
Grand Jury --
Gray, Henry Judd --
Gray, Horace --
Gray v. Mississippi --
Gray v. Netherland --
Great Hanging --
Great Risk to Others Aggravator --
Greece --
Green River Killer --
Green v. Georgia --
Green v. United States --
Gregg v. Georgia --
Grenada --
Griffin v. United States --
Guatemala --
Guilty but Mentally Ill --
Guilty Plea --
Guinea --
Guinea-Bissau --
Guiteau, Charles Julius --
Gusman v. Marrero --
Gutierrez Brothers --
Guyana --
Habeas Corpus --
Habeas Corpus Procedural Rules --
Habitual Offender --
Haiti --
Hale v. Kentucky --
Hallinger v. Davis --
Handicapped Person Aggravator --
Hands Off Cain --
Hanging --
Hardy v. United States --
Harlan, John M. --
Harlan, John M. II --
Harmless Error Rule --
Harris v. Alabama --
Harris v. South Carolina --
Haupt, Herbert Hans --
Hauptmann, Bruno Richard --
Hawaii --
Hearsay --
Hearsay Exceptions --
Heath v. Alabama --
Heckler v. Chaney --
Heinck, Heinrich Harm --
Heinous, Atrocious, Cruel, or Depraved Aggravator --
Henderson, Cathy Lynn --
Herold, David --
Herrera v. Collins --
Hickory v. United States (I) --
Hickory v. United States (II) --
Hildwin v. Florida --
Hill, Joe --
Hill v. McDonough --
Hill v. Texas --
Hispanics and Capital Punishment.
Hitchcock v. Dugger --
Holberg, Brittany Marlowe --
Holden v. Minnesota --
Holmes, Dr. Henry H. --
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr. --
Holmes v. South Carolina --
Homicide --
Honduras --
Honken, Dustin --
Hopkins v. Reeves --
Hopper v. Evans --
Hopt v. Utah (I) --
Hopt v. Utah (II) --
Hopt v. Utah (III) --
Horn, Tom --
Horn v. Banks --
Hostage Aggravator --
House v. Bell --
Houston Military Riot of 1917 --
Howell v. Mississippi --
Hughes, Charles E. --
Human Rights Watch --
Hung Jury --
Hungary --
Hurtado v. California --
Iceland --
Idaho --
Illegally Obtained Evidence --
Illinois --
Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Impact of the Furman Decision --
In Custody Aggravator --
In Forma Pauperis --
In Re Cross --
In Re Durrant --
In Re Jugiro --
In Re Kemmler --
In Re Medley --
In Re Robertson --
In Re Wood --
Incarceration --
Incompetent --
Independent Source Rule --
India --
Indiana --
Indictment --
Indigent Defendant --
Individualized Sentencing --
Indonesia --
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel --
Informant Aggravator --
Information --
Informing Jury of How Death Is Imposed --
Initial Appearance --
Injunction --
Innocence Protection Act of 2004 --
Innocent --
Insanity --
Insanity Defense --
Insanity While Awaiting Execution --
Instructions to Jury --
Intent to Kill --
Intermediate Courts of Appeal --
International Capital Punishment Nations --
International Court of Justice --
Intervention by Next Friend --
Intoxication Defense --
Intoxication Mitigator --
Invalid Aggravator --
Involuntary Confession --
Iowa --
Iowa Drug Murders --
Iran --
Iraq --
Ireland --
Irrelevant Evidence --
Irresistible Impulse Test --
Irvin v. Dowd (I) --
Irvin v. Dowd (II) --
Isaacs v. United States --
Israel --
Italy --
Itow v. United States --
Jackson, Howell E. --
Jackson, Robert H. --
Jackson v. Denno --
Jamaica --
Japan --
Jasper County Dragging Murder --
Jennings, Patricia --
Johnson, Angela Jane --
Johnson v. Mississippi --
Johnson v. Texas --
Johnson v. United States --
Johnson, William --
Joint Venture Theory --
Jones v. United States (I) --
Jones v. United States (II) --
Jordan --
Judge Aggravator --
Judge Trial --
Judge-Made Law --
Jurek v. Texas --
Jurisdiction --
Juror Aggravator --
Jury --
Jury Deadlock --
Jury Deliberation --
Jury Instructions --
Jury Override --
Jury Selection --
Jury Trial --
Jury Unanimity --
Jury View --
Justice for All --
Justifications for Capital Punishment --
Juvenile Offenses --
Juveniles --
Kansas --
Kansas City Massacre --
Kansas v. Marsh --
Kasi, Mir Aimal --
Kawakita v. United States --
Kazakhstan --
Keizo v. Henry --
Kelley v. Oregon --
Kemmler, William --
Kennedy, Anthony M. --
Kentucky --
Kenya --
Kerling, Edward John --
Kidnapping --
Kidnapping Aggravator --
Kintpuash, Jack --
Kiribati --
Kohl v. Lehlback --
Kokoraleis, Andrew --
Korea, North --
Korea, South --
Kraft, Randy Steven.
Kring v. Missouri --
Kuwait --
Kyles v. Whitley --
Kyrgyzstan --
LaGrand Brothers --
Lamarca, Angelo --
Lambert v. Barrett (I) --
Lambert v. Barrett (II) --
Lambrix v. Singletary --
Landmark Decision --
Lane v. Brown --
Lankford v. Idaho --
Laos --
Larzelere, Virginia Gail --
Last Execution of the Twentieth Century --
Last Meal --
Last Statement --
Latvia --
Law Enforcement Officer Aggravator --
Law of Parties --
Law of the Case Doctrine --
Lebanon --
Lee, John Doyle --
Leland v. Oregon --
Lem Woon v. Oregon --
Lesser Included Offense Instruction --
Lethal Gas --
Lethal Injection --
Lewis v. Jeffers --
Lewis v. United States --
Leyra v. Denno --
Liberia --
Libya --
Liechtenstein --
Life Imprisonment --
LIFESPARK --
Lilly v. Virginia --
Lincoln's Conspirators --
Lindbergh Kidnapping --
Lingg, Louis --
Lisenba v. California --
Literary Depictions of Capital Punishment --
Lithuania --
Livingston, Henry B. --
Local Government Executions --
Lockett v. Ohio --
Lockhart v. Fretwell --
Lonchar v. Thomas --
Louisiana --
Loving v. United States --
Lowenfield v. Phelps --
Lundgren, Jeffrey --
Lurton, Horace H. --
Luxembourg --
Lying-in-Wait Aggravator --
MacArthur Justice Center --
Macedonia --
Madagascar --
Magistrate --
Maine --
Majority Opinion --
Malawi --
Malaysia --
Maldives --
Mali --
Malinski v. New York --
Mallory v. United States --
Malloy v. South Carolina --
Malta --
Malvo, Lee Boyd --
Mandamus --
Mandate --
Mandatory Death Penalty Statutes --
Manson Family --
Marshall Islands --
Marshall, John --
Marshall, Thurgood --
Martin v. Texas --
Martinsville Seven --
Maryland --
Maryland Citizens Against State Executions --
Mass Murder --
Massachusetts --
Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty --
Matthews, Stanley --
Mattox v. United States --
Mauritania --
Mauritius --
Maximum Security Prison --
Maxwell v. Bishop --
McCarty, Henry --
McCleskey v. Kemp --
McElvaine v. Brush --
McFarland v. Scott --
McGautha v. California --
McKenna, Joseph --
McKinley's Assassination --
McKoy v. North Carolina --
McLean, John --
McNulty v. California --
McReynolds, James C. --
Medellin v. Dretke --
Media Coverage of Execution --
Mens Rea --
Mentally Retarded Capital Felon --
Methods of Execution --
Mexico --
Michigan --
Mickens v. Taylor --
Micronesia --
Military Death Penalty Law --
Milke, Debra Jean --
Miller, Samuel F. --
Miller v. Pate --
Miller-El v. Cockrell --
Miller-El v. Dretke --
Mills v. Maryland --
Mills v. United States --
Minder v. Georgia --
Minnesota --
Minnesotans Against the Death Penalty --
Minor Participation Mitigator --
Minton, Sherman --
Mississippi --
Missouri --
Mistrial --
Mitchell v. Esparza --
Mitigating Circumstances --
Mixed Petition for Habeas Corpus Relief --
M'naghten Rule --
Molalla Forest Serial Killer --
Moldova --
Monaco --
Mongolia --
Montana --
Montenegro --
Moody, William H. --
Moore, Blanche --
Moore v. Dempsey.
Moore v. Illinois --
Moral Justification Mitigator --
Moratorium on Capital Punishment --
Morgan v. Illinois --
Morocco --
Motive --
Mountain Meadows Massacre --
Moussaoui, Zacarias --
Mozambique --
Mudgett, Herman --
Muhammad, John Allen --
Multiple Homicide Aggravator --
Mu'Min v. Virginia --
Murder --
Murder, Inc. --
Murder Mack --
Murphy, Francis William --
Murray v. Giarratano --
Murray v. Louisiana --
Namibia --
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund --
National Center for Victims of Crime --
National Coalition of Homicide Survivors --
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Native Americans and Capital Punishment --
Nauru --
Nazi Spies --
Neal v. Delaware --
Nebraska --
Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty --
Neebe, Oscar W. --
Nelson v. Campbell --
Nepal --
Netherlands --
Neubauer, Herman Otto --
Nevada --
New Hampshire --
New Jersey --
New Mexico --
New Mexico Coalition to Repeal the Death Penalty --
New York --
New Zealand --
Newton, Frances Elaine --
Next Friend Intervention --
Ng, Charles --
Nicaragua --
Niger --
Nigeria --
Night Stalker --
Nobles v. Georgia --
Nofire v. United States --
Nolo Contendere Plea --
Non-binding Jury Sentencing Determination --
Non-Capital and Capital Sentencing --
Non-Capital Punishment Jurisdictions --
Non-Discrimination Jury Instruction --
Non-Statutory Aggravating Circumstances --
Non-Statutory Mitigating Circumstances --
Non-Weighing Jurisdictions --
Norris, Roy --
Norris v. Alabama --
North Carolina --
North Carolina v. Alford --
North Dakota --
Norway --
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity --
Not Pressed or Passed Upon Rule --
Notice of Intent to Seek Death Penalty --
Notice of Statutory Aggravating Circumstances --
Nullification Instruction --
O'Connor, Sandra Day --
Ocuish, Hannah --
O'Dell v. Netherland --
Ohio --
Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard --
Ohio Cult Murders --
Ohioans to Stop Executions --
Oklahoma --
Oklahoma Bombing --
Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Oman --
Opening Statement --
Opinion on the Appropriateness of Death Penalty --
Opposition to Capital Punishment --
Ordering Killing Aggravator --
Oregon --
Oregon Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Oregon v. Guzek --
Packer, Alfred --
Paid for Killing Aggravator --
Paine, Lewis --
Pakistan --
Palau --
Palestinian Authority --
Palko v. Connecticut --
Panama --
Papua New Guinea --
Paraguay --
Pardon --
Parents of Murdered Children --
Parker v. Dugger --
Parole --
Parole Ineligibility Jury Instruction --
Parole/Probation Officer Aggravator --
Parole/Probation Release Aggravator --
Passion, Prejudice, or Arbitrariness --
Patterson v. Alabama --
Patton v. Mississippi --
Payne v. Arkansas --
Payne v. Tennessee --
Peckham, Rufus W --
Pecuniary Gain Aggravator --
Penalty Phase Evidence --
Penalty Phase Procedural Structure --
Penitentiary.
Pennsylvania --
Penry v. Johnson --
Penry v. Lynaugh --
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty --
Per Curiam Opinion --
Peremptory Challenge --
Perovich v. United States --
Persuasive Authority --
Peru --
Philippines --
Phyle v. Duffy --
Pierpont, Harry --
Pierre v. Louisiana --
Pitney, Mahlon --
Place, Martha M. --
Plain Error Rule --
Plane Hijacking Aggravator --
Plurality Opinion --
Pointer v. United States --
Poison Aggravator --
Poland --
Poland Brothers --
Poland v. Arizona --
Pope John Paul II --
Portugal --
Post-Conviction Remedies --
Post-Crime Mitigating Evidence --
Post-Furman Capital Punishment --
Powell, Lewis F. Jr. --
Powell v. Alabama --
Powell v. Texas --
Precedent --
Preface --
Pre-Furman Capital Punishment --
Pregnant Aggravator --
Preliminary Hearing --
Premeditation Aggravator --
Preparation for Execution --
Pre-Sentence Report --
Presnell v. Georgia --
Presumption of Innocence --
Presumption of Innocence of Aggravators --
Presumption That Death Is the Proper Sentence --
Pre-trial Publicity --
Preventing Arrest Aggravator --
Principal in the First Degree --
Principal in the Second Degree --
Prior Felony or Homicide Aggravator --
Prison Adjustment Mitigator --
Prison Chaplain --
Prisons --
Privilege against Self-Incrimination --
Pro Bono Legal Service --
Probation Sentence --
Procedural Default of Constitutional Claims --
Proffitt v. Florida --
Prompt Presentment Rule --
Proportionality Review of Death Sentence --
Prosecution by Information --
Prosecutor --
Prosecutor Aggravator --
Protests Against Capital Punishment --
Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms --
Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms --
Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Public Trial --
Public Viewing of Execution --
Pulley v. Harris --
Qatar --
Queenan v. Oklahoma --
Quirin, Richard --
Race and Capital Punishment --
Race-Qualified Jury --
Raise or Waive Rule --
Ramdass v. Angelone --
Ramirez, Richard --
Rape and Capital Punishment --
Rawlins v. Georgia --
Reece v. Georgia --
Reed, Stanley Forman --
Rehnquist, William Hubbs --
Relevant Evidence --
Religion and Capital Punishment --
Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project --
Remand --
Reprieve --
Requesting Death --
Residual Doubt of Guilt --
Respite --
Retrials and the Death Penalty --
Retribution Theory of Capital Punishment --
Retroactive Application of a New Constitutional Rule --
Reverse --
Review of Death Sentence --
Rhines v. Weber --
Rhode Island --
Richetti, Adam --
Richmond v. Lewis --
Rideau v. Louisiana --
Ridgway, Gary Leon --
Riggins v. Nevada --
Riggs, Christina Marie --
Right to Counsel --
Right to Remain Silent --
Right to Trial by Jury --
Ring v. Arizona --
Ripper Crew Cult Murders --
Robbery --
Robbery Aggravator --
Roberts, John G. Jr. --
Roberts, Owen J. --
Roberts v. Louisiana (I) --
Roberts v. Louisiana (II).
Robinson v. United States --
Rogers, Dayton Leroy --
Rogers v. Alabama --
Rogers v. Peck --
Rogers v. Richmond --
Rolling, Danny --
Romania --
Romano v. Oklahoma --
Rompilla v. Beard --
Rooney v. North Dakota --
Roper v. Simmons --
Rose v. Hodges --
Rosenberg, JuliusRosenberg, Ethel and --
Rosenberg v. United States --
Ross v. Aguirre --
Ross v. Oklahoma --
Routier, Darlie Lynn --
Rule Against Double-Counting Aggravators --
Rules of Evidence --
Russia --
Rutledge, Wiley B. --
Rwanda --
Ryan, George Homer --
Sacco and Vanzetti --
Saffle v. Parks --
Saint Kitts and Nevis --
Saint Lucia --
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines --
Salem Village Witch Hangings --
Samoa --
San Marino --
São Tomé and Príncipe --
Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania --
Satterwhite v. Texas --
Saudia Arabia --
Sawyer v. Smith --
Sawyer v. Whitley --
Scalia, Antonin --
Schad v. Arizona --
Schick v. Reed --
Schiro v. Farley --
Schlup v. Delo --
Schriro v. Smith --
Schriro v. Summerlin --
Schwab, Michael --
Schwab v. Berggren --
Scott, Roger --
Scottsboro Boys --
Search and Seizure Clause --
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights --
Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 --
Security on Campus --
Seeking Death Penalty After Conviction Reversed --
Self-Defense --
Self-Incrimination --
Self-Representation --
Senegal --
Sentence for Non-Capital Crime --
Sentencing Proceeding --
September 11 Attack --
Sequestration of Jury --
Serial Killer --
Serial Killing Aggravator --
Serial Sniper Attacks --
Sexual Assault --
Sexual Assault Aggravator --
Seychelles --
Shackles --
Shafer v. South Carolina --
Shell v. Mississippi --
Shepherd v. Florida --
Shiras, George Jr. --
Siblings --
Sierra Leone --
Simmons v. South Carolina --
Sims v. Georgia (I) --
Sims v. Georgia (II) --
Singapore --
Sioux Mass Executions --
Sixth Amendment --
Skipper v. South Carolina --
Slovakia --
Slovenia --
Smith v. Baldi --
Smith v. Mississippi --
Smith v. Murray --
Smith v. Texas --
Snyder, Ruth --
Snyder v. Massachusetts --
Sochor v. Florida --
Solesbee v. Balkcom --
Solomon Islands --
Somalia --
Souter, David H. --
South Africa --
South Carolina --
South Carolina v. Gathers --
South Dakota --
Southern California Strangler --
Southern Center for Human Rights --
Sovereignty Doctrine --
Spain --
Spano v. New York --
Sparf v. United States --
Spaziano v. Florida --
Speck, Richard --
Speedy Trial Clause --
Spencer v. Texas --
Spies, August --
Spiritual Advisor --
Spisak, Frank G., Jr. --
Spreitzer, Edward --
Sri Lanka --
St. Clair v. United States --
Standing of Capital Felon's Relative to Stop Execution --
Stanford v. Kentucky --
Stansbury v. California --
Starkweather, Charles R. --
Starr v. United States --
Statutory Aggravating Circumstances --
Statutory Mitigating Circumstances --
Stay of Execution --
Stein v. New York --
Stephan v. United States --
Stevens, John Paul.
Stevenson v. United States --
Stewart, Potter --
Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal --
Stewart v. Massachusetts --
Stewart v. Smith --
Stewart v. United States --
Stigma of Death Sentence on Family --
Stone, Harlan F. --
Storti v. Massachusetts --
Story, Joseph --
Strauder v. West Virginia --
Strickland v. Washington --
Strickler v. Greene --
Stringer v. Black --
Stroble v. California --
Strong, William --
Stroud v. United States --
Structure of Capital Trial --
Styers, James --
Subpoena --
Substantial Capacity Test --
Successive Prosecutions --
Sudan --
Sumner v. Shuman --
Suriname --
Surratt, Mary --
Sutherland, George --
Swain v. Alabama --
Swaziland --
Sweden --
Switzerland --
Sympathy for Victim --
Syria --
Taft, William Howard --
Taiwan --
Tajikistan --
Talton v. Mayes --
Taney, Roger B. --
Tanzania --
Taylor v. Alabama --
Tennard v. Dretke --
Tennessee --
Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing --
Terrorism Aggravator --
Texas --
Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Texas v. Cobb --
Thailand --
Theory of Accountability --
Thiede v. Utah --
Thiel, Werner --
Thomas, Clarence --
Thomas v. Arizona --
Thomas v. Texas --
Thompson v. Missouri --
Thompson v. Oklahoma --
Thompson v. United States --
Those Facing the Death Penalty --
Three-Judge Panel --
Tison v. Arizona --
Tla-Koo-Yel-Lee v. United States --
Togo --
Tonga --
Torture Aggravator --
Townsend v. Sain --
Trailside Killer --
Train Wreck or Hijacking Aggravator --
Transcript of Proceeding --
Transferred Intent Doctrine --
Treason --
Trial Structure --
Trial Transcript --
Tried in Absentia --
Trifurcated Trial --
Trinidad and Tobago --
Tucker, Karla Faye --
Tuggle v. Netherland --
Tuilaepa v. California --
Tunisia --
Turkey --
Turkmenistan --
Turner v. Murray --
Turner v. Pennsylvania --
Tuvalu --
Twitchell v. Pennsylvania --
Two-Witness Conviction Requirement --
Types of Crimes --
Uganda --
Ukraine --
Unitarian Universalists Against the Death Penalty --
United Arab Emirates --
United Nation's Commission on Human Rights --
United States Attorney General --
United States Courts of Appeal --
United States District Courts --
United States Government --
United States Supreme Court --
United States v. Bass --
United States v. Bevans --
United States v. Carignan --
United States v. Jackson --
United States v. Klintock --
United States v. Palmer --
United States v. Pirates --
United States v. Smith --
United Students Against the Death Penalty --
Unlawfully Obtaining Custody of Defendant --
Uruguay --
Utah --
Utter Disregard for Human Life Aggravator --
Uzbekistan --
Valdez v. United States --
Valentina v. Mercer --
Vampire Clan Murders --
Vanuatu --
Vatican City State --
Venezuela --
Venue --
Vermont --
Victim Impact Evidence --
Victim's Consent Mitigator --
Victim's Family's Right to Attend Execution --
Victim's Opinion about the Death Penalty --
Victor v. Nebraska --
Vietnam --
Viewing Execution.
Vigilance Committee of San Francisco --
Vinson, Fred M. --
Virginia --
Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty --
Void for Vagueness Doctrine --
Voir Dire --
Volunteer to Be Executed --
Wainwright v. Goode --
Wainwright v. Witt --
Waite, Morrison R. --
Waiver --
Waiver of Right to Counsel --
Wallace, Henry Louis --
Wallace v. United States --
Walton v. Arizona --
Warren, Earl --
Washington --
Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Watts v. Indiana --
Wayne, James M. --
Weeks v. Angelone --
Weighing Jurisdictions --
Weinberger Kidnapping --
West Memphis Cult Murders --
West Virginia --
Western Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty --
Westmoreland v. United States --
Wheeler v. United States --
White, Byron R. --
White, Edward D. --
White v. Texas --
Whitmore v. Arkansas --
Whittaker, Charles E. --
Whitus v. Georgia --
Wiggins v. Smith --
Wiggins v. Utah --
Wilkerson v. Utah --
Williams (Michael) v. Taylor --
Williams, Stanley Tookie III --
Williams (Terry) v. Taylor --
Williams v. Georgia --
Williams v. Mississippi --
Williams v. New York --
Williams v. Oklahoma --
Wilson v. United States --
Winston v. United States --
Wirz, Henry --
Wisconsin --
Witherspoon v. Illinois --
Witness Aggravator --
Witnessing an Execution --
Women and Capital Punishment --
Woodford v. Garceau --
Woodford v. Visciotti --
Woodson v. North Carolina --
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty --
World Congress Against the Death Penalty --
Wrongly Convicted --
Wuornos, Aileen --
Wynne v. United States --
Wyoming --
Wyoming Code §§ 7-13-912 and 913: --
Yates v. Aiken --
Yemen --
Youth and Capital Punishment --
Zambia --
Zangara, Giuseppe --
Zant v. Stephens (I) --
Zant v. Stephens (II) --
Ziang v. United States --
Zimbabwe.
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