Evaluating fairness and accuracy in state death penalty systems : the Tennessee Death Penalty Assessment Report : an analysis of Tennessee's death penalty laws, procedures, and practices /

Evaluating fairness and accuracy in state death penalty systems : the Tennessee Death Penalty Assessment Report : an analysis of Tennessee's death penalty laws, procedures, and practices /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[Chicago, Ill.] : American Bar Association, c2007.
Description:	xl, 334, A-OO p. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Capital punishment -- Tennessee. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Tennessee. Due process of law -- Tennessee. Capital punishment. Criminal justice, Administration of. Due process of law. Tennessee.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6637759

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Varying Form of Title:	Tennessee Death Penalty Assessment Report
Other authors / contributors:	American Bar Association.
Notes:	"March 2007." "The materials contained herein represent the assessment soley of the ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project and the Tennessee Death Penalty Assessment Team and have not been approved by the House of Delegates or the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association and accordingly, should not be construed as representing the policy of the American Bar Association." Includes bibliographical references Also available on the Internet. Also available in the University of Chicago Library Archive. Printout. [Chicago : University of Chicago Library, 2007]. Downloaded and printed from ABA web site on October 30, 2007.

Table of Contents:

An overview of Tennessee's death penalty system
Collection, preservation, and testing of DNA and other types of evidence
Law enforcement indentifications and interrogations
Crime laboratories and medical examiner offices
Prosecutorial professionalism
Defense services
The direct appeals process
State post-conviction proceedings
Clemency
Capital jury instructions
Judicial independence
Racial and ethnic minorities
Mental retardation, mental illness, and the death penalty.