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Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Report: An Analysis of Georgia's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
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Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Report: An Analysis of Georgia's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: An assessment of the "various laws, rules, procedures, and guidelines relating to the administration of the death penalty" in Georgia are examined in this report (p. ii). Chapters following an executive summary are: an overview of Georgia's death penalty system; collection, preservation, and testing of DNA and other types of evidence; law enforcement identifications and interrogations; crime laboratories and medical examiner offices; prosecutorial professionalism; defense services; the direct appeal process; state post-conviction proceedings; clemency; voir dire and capital jury instructions; judicial independence; the treatment of racial and ethnic minorities; and mental retardation, mental illness, and the death penalty.