Books written by Joseph A. Melusky

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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, ...

  • American Political System Plus PowerWeb American Government, MP

    This text takes a new approach to teaching introductory American government and politics.

  • 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 ...

  • Capital Punishment: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law

    Utilizing a rich and varied array of scholarship and primary sources, this work examines historical, political, cultural, and legal factors and developments that have shaped the contours of capital punishment throughout American history.

  • 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.