Defending the Death Penalty Case: What Makes Death Different?

Authors

Andrea D. Lyon

Publication Date

3-1991

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The United States Supreme Court has said time and again that "death is different." Lately, reading the Court's decisions makes the death penalty defense attorney wonder why, in those cases in which the imposition of the death penalty is the greatest, it is seemingly all right to have the most conviction-prone jury, a racially biased history of the death penalty's imposition, and fewer procedural safeguards.

Recommended Citation

Lyon, Andrea D. (1991) "Defending the Death Penalty Case: What Makes Death Different?," Mercer Law Review: Vol. 42: No. 2, Article 11.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/jour_mlr/vol42/iss2/11