The American Death Penalty

  • Wendy Lyn Watson (University of North Texas, Department of Political Science)

26. Glossip v. Gross (https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-7955)

Glossip v. Gross (https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-7955)
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The American Death Penalty

Wendy Lyn Watson

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Table of contents

  1. 1

    Eighth Amendment Principles

  2. 2

    Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86 (1958)

  3. 3

    Challenges to the Death Penalty

  4. 4

    Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972)

  5. 5

    Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976)

  6. 6

    Capital Crimes

  7. 7

    Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977)

  8. 8

    Kennedy v. Louisiana, 128 S.Ct. 2641 (2008)

  9. 9

    Tison v. Arizona, 481 U.S. 137 (1987)

  10. 10

    Aggravating and Mitigating Factors

  11. 11

    Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586 (1978)

  12. 12

    Jurek v. Texas, 428 U.S. 262 (1976)

  13. 13

    McKoy v. North Carolina, 494 U.S. 433 (1990)

  14. 14

    Kansas v. Marsh, 548 U.S. 163 (2006)

  15. 15

    Capital Juries

  16. 16

    Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (1968)

  17. 17

    Turner v. Murray, 476 U.S. 28 (1986)

  18. 18

    Uttecht v. Brown, 551 U.S. 1 (2007)

  19. 19

    Eligibility for Execution

  20. 20

    Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002)

  21. 21

    Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005)

  22. 22

    Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986)

  23. 23

    Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930 (2007)

  24. 24

    Methods of Execution

  25. 25

    Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. 35 (2008)

  26. 26

    Glossip v. Gross (https://www.oyez.org/cases/2014/14-7955)

  27. 27

    Appeals and Injustice

  28. 28

    Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993)

  29. 29

    Additional Sources of Error

  30. 30

    Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984)

  31. 31

    Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362 (2000)

  32. 32

    Race and the Death Penalty

  33. 33

    McKleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987)

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