Cruel and unusual : the Supreme Court and capital punishment / by Michael Meltsner.

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Includes index

Cont.: The fund -- The court -- The facts of death -- The strategy unfolds -- The race factor -- Moratorium -- Simon's frolic -- Maxwell -- Boykin -- Haynsworth, Carswell, and Blackmun -- Maxwell (cont.) -- Taking stock -- "If the death penalty is to be retained at all" -- Powell and Rehnquist -- Closing in -- Cruel and unusual.