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Woodson v. North Carolina

Further Readings



  • Bedau, Hugo Adam, ed. The Death Penalty in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
  • Biskupic, Joan, and Elder Witt. Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1997.
  • Doyle, Charles. Capital Punishment in the Supreme Court Prior to Gregg v. Georgia and Woodson v. North Carolina. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 1976.
  • Hall, Kermit L., ed. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Levy, Leonard W., ed. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
  • Witt, Elder. Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the Supreme Court, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1990.
  • ------. The Supreme Court A to Z. CQ's Encyclopedia of American Government, revised ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1994.

Additional topics

Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationNotable Trials and Court Cases - 1973 to 1980Woodson v. North Carolina - Significance, Woodson's Crime, Carolina's Punishment, "a Faceless, Undifferentiated Mass"