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DESCRIPTION
Target Audience
Psychologists
Learning Level
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the history of the death penalty.
- List significant U.S. Supreme Court decisions in capital cases.
- Name stages of a capital case.
- Explain aggravating and mitigating factors.
- Recognize the role of the psychologist in death penalty litigation.
- Discuss special issues, including competency, sanity, mental retardation, antisocial personality disorder, and the death penalty.
- Summarize ethical issues in capital litigation.
Topics for
StudyHistory of death penalty litigation • Significant Supreme Court
decisions in capital cases since 1970 • Stages of a capital case • Aggravating and
mitigating factors and jury instructions • The role of the psychologist in death
penalty litigation • Competency, sanity, and mental retardation in capital cases • Antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, and risk assessment • Ethical
issues in capital litigation
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