ISBN: 0253316154 9780253316158

Category: Law / Civil Procedure

Page count: 256

Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the death penalty for crimes committed by those under the age of 18? This book by a professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law discusses constitutionality, an overview of juvenile executions, and sentencing practices in the 1980s. It should be on the shelf next to Hugo Adam Bedau's Death is Different ( LJ 6/1/87) and Stephen Nathanson's An Eye for an Eye (LJ 11/1/87). These three books are valuable to scholars who are arguing against the death penalty. Streib's volume is the most definitive with respect to juveniles. Of interest to specialists and informed lay readers. John Broderick, Stonehill Coll., North Easton, Mass. Copyright 1988 Cahners Business Information.