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Thomas G. Walker

Eligible for Execution

The Story of the Daryl Atkins Case

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This riveting and enlightening narrative unfolds on the night of August 16, 1996, with the brutal and senseless murder of Eric Nesbitt, a young man stationed at Langley Air Force Base, at the hands of 18-year-old Daryl Atkins. Over the course of more than a decade, Atkins&BAD:rsquo;s case has bounced between the lowest and the highest levels of the judicial system. Found guilty and then sentenced to death in 1998 for Nesbitt&BAD:rsquo;s murder, the Atkins case was then taken up in 2002 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue before the justices: given Daryl Atkins&BAD:rsquo;s mental retardation, would his execution constitute cruel a… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-87289-418-1
  • EAN: 9780872894181
  • Produktnummer: 23243244
  • Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 410 g
  • Gewicht: 410
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Thomas G. Walker is the Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science at Emory University, where he teaches courses in constitutional law and the judicial process. He is the coauthor of A Court Divided (1988), with Deborah Barrow, which won the V. O. Key, Jr. Award for the best book on southern politics, and the Constitutional Law for a Changing America series, with Lee Epstein. He is also author of Eligible for Execution: The Story of the Daryl Atkins Case (2009).

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