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This title offers rich and detailed accounts of the most important capital cases in American law. In addition to comprehensive coverage of the "canonical cases" such as <i>Furman v. Georgia</i>, <i>Gregg v. Georgia</i>, <i>Penry v. Lynaugh</i>, <i>Payne v. Tennessee</i>, and <i>McCleskey v. Kemp</i>, the volume also presents in-depth accounts of cases involving core capital issues, including: <ul> <li>Representation</li> <li>Protections for the innocent</li> <li>Proportionality limits</li> <li>Execution methods</li> <li>The problem of "volunteers"</li> <li>The guarantee of heightened reliability</li> </ul>