Defendants' wrongs and victims' rights
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The Supreme Court's decision in Payne v Tennessee, permitting victim impact evidence in capital sentencing trials, is flawed. The broad conception of harm adopted is a departure from the traditional stress on the defendant's mental state in capital punishment cases. In addition, the court did not specify how victim impact evidence is to be used without prejudice. Furthermore, the concept of achieving balance between the interests of defendants and victims is inappropriate because the sentencing procedure is only concerned with the defendant's fate.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1992
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Burdens hard to bear: a theology of civil rights
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Christianity has been an influence in American politics since colonials times, and has been a force for both protecting and curtailing individual rights. Evangelical Christians tend to be more politically active against those who do not hold their conservatives views than other Christians with more liberal and neutral views on how to influence government decision-making. Theologically, there is agreement that coercion to Christian values is unproductive politically, but debate centers on whether more liberal views can protect individual's rights.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1992
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Stealing away: black women, outlaw culture and the rhetoric of rights
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African American women are de facto outlaws in the dominant white male structure, and especially in the legal system, but can take this outlaw status and turn it into something positive to reinterpret and change their place and role in society. Organized subversion and resistance by African American women can reshape the notion of individual rights versus community welfare and change both the way African Americans are seen and see themselves as fitting into the legal system and society at large.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1993
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