Executing the mentally ill : the criminal justice system and the case of Alvin Ford
- Title
- Executing the mentally ill : the criminal justice system and the case of Alvin Ford / Kent S. Miller, Michael L. Radelet.
- Published by
- Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1993.
- Author
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- Description
- xiii, 200 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Ford, Alvin Bernard, -1991 > Trials, litigation, etc
- Ford, Alvin Bernard, -1991
- Ford, Alvin, (1953-1991)
- Ford, Alvin B
- Trials (Murder) > Florida
- Capital punishment > United States
- Insanity (Law) > United States
- Death row inmates > Mental health > United States
- Capital punishment
- Insanity (Law)
- Trials (Murder)
- Prozess
- Todesstrafe
- Täter
- Psychische Störung
- Strafprocessen
- Doodstraf
- Psychisch gestoorden
- Peine de mort > États-Unis
- Meurtre > Procès > États-Unis
- Florida
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Contents
- Drawing the lines: who lives and who dies? -- An introduction to Alvin Ford -- Family background, the crime, and trial: 1953-1974 -- Anticipating and enduring the first death warrant: 1975-1981 -- Psychological deterioration and the road to the Supreme Court: 1982-1986 -- Physicians, mental health professionals, and the death penalty -- Alvin Ford and the courts: additional issues -- Competence for execution: the Supreme Court speaks -- Back to federal court: the 1988 hearing and beyond -- The cure that kills.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.