The Marriage of State Law and Individual Rights and a New Limit on the Federal Death Penalty

Since the 1990s, federal prosecutors have, with increasing frequency, sought the death penalty for federal offenses committed in and also punishable under the laws of non-death penalty states. Critics of this practice have pointed out that federal prosecutors can use the federal death penalty to cir...

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1. VerfasserIn: Ross, Jonathan (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: 2014
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