Books written by Keith A. Pesto

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  The Death Penalty: Documents Decoded

  His two accomplices were Meigo Bailey and Kirkland Lawrence, both 20-year-old men. According to the State . . . Graham, Bailey, and Lawrence knocked on the door of the home where Carlos Rodriguez lived. [They] . . . forcibly entered the ...

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  Capital Punishment

  Writing for the majority, Justice Powell concluded that “the Baldus study does not demonstrate a constitutionally significant risk of racial bias affecting the Georgia capital sentencing process” and that McCleskey's arguments would be ...

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  Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Rights and Liberties Under the Law

  Other Books in America's Freedoms Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr., Series Editor Equal Protection of the Laws, Francis Graham Lee Freedom of Association, Robert J. Bresler Freedom of Speech, Ken I. Kersch Property Rights, Polly J. Price ...

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  Capital Punishment

  Justices Brennan, Marshall, and Douglas dissented. One year later, Justices Harlan and Black had retired, and McGautha was reversed in Furman v. Georgia. PART TWO—FROM FURMAN TO GREGG: 1972–1976 Introduction During the 1960s, ...

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  The Death Penalty: A Reference Handbook

  The event took place beyond U.S. jurisdiction but many Americans were outraged and debated whether such forms of ... of this book, since the mid-1970s, the Eighth Amendment has also been increasingly used to litigate claims that prison ...

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  Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Rights and Liberties under the Law

  On 184 separate occasions, the Supreme Court attempted to decide what constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment." Constitutional scholars Joseph A. Melusky and Judge Keith A. Pesto help readers make sense of the controversy.