Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: Is DIFFERENTAs the Supreme Court has said, time and again, death is different: It is "different in kind from any other punishment imposed under our system of criminal justice;" 1 it "differs more from life imprisonment than a 100-year sentence differs from one of only a year or two;" ' 2 and so forth.Traditionally, this observation has justified special procedural protections for capital defendants.Justice Harlan put it nicely nearly forty years ago: "I do not concede that whatever process is 'due' an offender faced with a fine or a prison sentence necessarily satisfies the requirements of the Constitution in a capital case."A central purpose of this special attention to
Source: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Author: Gross, Samuel R.
Institution: University of Michigan
Language: English
Topic: Criminal Law and Evidence
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7005977277