Death Penalty Seminar

You may contact Maxine Grosshans, the course liaison, for research-related questions at mgrosshans@law.umaryland.edu.

Primary Law

Agencies, Associations, and Non-Governmental Organizations

Reports (Full-Text)

Subscription Databases

Electronic Journal Guides

Additional Electronic Resources

Capital Punishment Research Guide (Mugar Memorial Library/Boston University)
Contacts & Resources for Trial Lawyers and Other Public Interest Advocates
Cornell Death Penalty Page
Criminology Web Sites: An Annotated "Webliography" Guide to Web resources related to the study of crime, criminal behavior and its prevention
Federal Habeas Corpus Review: A Brief Overview (Todd Maybrown/Allen, Hansen & Maybrown)
Federal Habeas Corpus Update
Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases (ABA, 2003)
Habeas Assistance and Training
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Brief Bibliography

The following is a partial list of materials available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. The Library also owns a complete set of United States Codes, Statutes at Large, Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register.

Banner, Stuart. The death penalty : an American history.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
GEN STACKS HV8699.U5B367 2002

Bedau, Hugo Adam. Killing as punishment: reflections on the death penalty in America. Boston: Northeastern
University Press, c. 2004.
GEN STACKS HV8699.U5.B43 2004

Coyne, Randall. Capital punishment and the judicial process. [by] Randall Coyne [and] Lyn Entzeroth. 2nd ed.
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2001.
GEN STACKS KF9725.C69 2001

Streib, Victor L. Death Penalty in a Nutshell, 2d ed. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, c2005.
READING ROOM KF9227.C2S77 2005

Kurtis Bill. The Death penalty on trial: crisis in American justice. New York: Public Affairs, c2004.
GEN STACKS HV8699.U5 K87 2004

Debating the death penalty: should America have capital punishment?: The experts on both sides make their
best case. Edited by Hugo Adam Bedau and Paul G. Cassell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
GEN STACKS HV8699.U5D635 2004

Federal sentencing guidelines handbook. Shepard's editorial staff.
Colorado Springs, Colo. : Shepard's/McGraw-Hill ; New York : McGraw-Hill, c1990-
GEN STACKS KF9685.F43

Jackson, Jesse. Legal lynching : the death penalty and America's future. [by] Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., Bruce Shapiro. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2001.
GEN STACKS HV8699.U5J35 2001

Machinery of death : the reality of America's death penalty regime . Edited by David R. Dow and Mark Dow ; with a foreword by Christopher Hitchens.
New York : Routledge, 2002.
GEN STACKS HV8699.U5M29 2002

Maryland sentencing guidelines manual. 2003.
College Park, Md. : State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, 2001-
GEN STACKS KFM1787.M37 2003

Practice under the federal sentencing guidelines. [by] Phylis Skloot Bamberger [and] David J. Gottlieb, editors. 4th ed. Gaithersburg [Md.] : Aspen Law & Business, c2001-
GEN STACKS KF9685.P7322

Rodriguez, Roxanne. The modern death penalty : a legal research guide. By Roxanne Rodriguez.
Buffallo, N.Y. : W.S. Hein, 2001.
GEN STACKS KF241.C65R63 2001

Sarat, Austin. When the state kills : capital punishment and the American condition.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.
GEN STACKS HV8699.U5S27 2001

The unpredictable constitution. Edited by Norman Dorsen.
New York : New York University Press, c2002.
GEN STACKS KF4550.A2U57 2002

Wrongly convicted : perspectives on failed justice. Edited by Saundra D. Westervelt [and] John A. Humphrey ; with a foreword by Michael L. Radelet.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001.
GEN STACKS KF220.W76 2001

This Course Research Page was created by Maxine Grosshans.