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McCleskey v. Kemp

Further Readings



  • Alexander, Rudolph, Jr., and Jacquelyn Gyamerah. "Differential Punishing of African Americans and Whites Who Possess Drugs." Journal of Black Studies, September 1997, p. 97.
  • Angeli, David H. "A 'Second Look' at Crack Cocaine Sentencing Policies." American Criminal Law Review, spring 1997, p. 1211.
  • Diamond, Shari Seidman, and Jonathan D. Casper. "Empirical Evidence and the Death Penalty: Past and Future." Journal of Social Issues, summer 1994, p. 177.
  • Garvey, Karin E. "Eighth Amendment - The Constitutionality of the Alabama Capital Sentencing Scheme." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, summer 1996, p. 1411.
  • Gorr, Michael J., and Sterling Harwood, eds. Crime and Punishment: Philosophic Explorations. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 1995.
  • Gross, Samuel R., and Robert Mauro. Death & Discrimination: Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989.
  • Johnson, Sheri Lynn. "Race, Crime, and the Law." Yale Law Journal, June 1998, p. 2619.
  • Mello, Michael. "Defunding Death." American Criminal Law Review, summer 1995, p. 933.
  • Russell, Gregory D. The Death Penalty and Racial Bias: Overturning Supreme Court Assumptions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Spohn, Cassia C. "Courts, Sentences, and Prisons." Daedalus, winter 1995, p. 119.
  • Stevenson, Bryan. "The Hanging Judges: Once the Court Said, 'Death is Different.' Now It Says, 'Let's Get On With It.'" The Nation, October 14, 1996, p. 16.
  • Sullivan, Dwight. "Military Death Row: Separate, Not Equal." The National Law Journal, November 6, 1995, p. A19.

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