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Providing Psycholegal Context: An Overview of Capital Sentencing Providing Psycholegal Context: An Overview of Capital Sentencing
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Forensic Mental Health Assessment in Sentencing Contexts—Mitigation Forensic Mental Health Assessment in Sentencing Contexts—Mitigation
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Assessment of Future Dangerousness in Capital Contexts Assessment of Future Dangerousness in Capital Contexts
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11 Of Capital Importance: Considerations in Capital Sentencing Contexts
Get accessJaymes Fairfax-Columbo, University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and University of New Mexico School of Law
Bronwyn Neeser, University of New Mexico, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Alexandra Kudatzky, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University
David DeMatteo, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University
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Published:23 February 2023
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Abstract
Capital sentencing is the legal process by which homicide offenders are determined to be deserving either of a sentence of life imprisonment or a sentence of death. Due to the severe and irrevocable liberty deprivation that a death sentence represents, the US Supreme Court has gone to great lengths to ensure that death sentences are not levied in arbitrary and capricious fashion. In addition, they have restricted the classes of individuals the death penalty can apply to. This chapter reviews key Supreme Court case law pertaining to capital sentencing as well as highlights several vital factors for forensic mental health professionals to consider in conducting evaluations in accordance with the trial phase of capital sentencing proceedings. Said factors include assessment of mitigating factors for sentencing, assessment of intellectual disability in Atkins evaluations, and assessment of future dangerousness.
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