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000277630 1001_ $$aBurnett, Cathleen.
000277630 24510 $$aJustice denied :$$bclemency appeals in death penalty cases /$$cCathleen Burnett.
000277630 260__ $$aBoston :$$bNortheastern University Press,$$cc2002.
000277630 300__ $$axx, 251 p. ;$$c24 cm.
000277630 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index.
000277630 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- The police investigation -- The prosecutor's misconduct -- The defense attorney -- The trial judge -- Appellate courts -- Governors' decisions: fail safe or fiction? -- The clemency alternative: justice denied.
000277630 520__ $$aSobered by mounting evidence of wrongful convictions in capital cases, both death penalty advocates and abolitionists are calling for a moratorium on executions in the United States. This book delves into the difficult questions surrounding the heated public and legal debate about a criminal justice system that risks the state-sanctioned killing of an innocent person.  Focusing on executive clemency petitions, the final hope for death row inmates, Cathleen Burnett exposes troubling flaws in the legal process of administering the death penalty. Her in-depth examination of all of the fifty petitions presented to the governors of Missouri since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1977, shows how the machinery of justice often fails the condemned and their victims alike. Skillfully interweaving her investigation with compelling case studies, Burnett considers particular stages in death penalty convictions to illuminate the mistakes and miscarriages of justice commonly addressed in clemency petitions -- police misconduct and false testimony; overzealous prosecution; ineffective defense counsel; judicial prejudice; and state and federal appellate reviews that increasingly neglect the protection of individual rights. Burnett also probes the decision-making process in evaluating clemency petitions, showing how political and other persuasive forces, from the media to the Pope, limit a governor's ability to act as a reliable fail-safe to capital punishment.
000277630 650_0 $$aCapital punishment$$zMissouri$$xHistory.
000277630 650_0 $$aClemency$$zMissouri$$xHistory.
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