Published 2013 by Prometheus Books

Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark Cases. Copyright © 2013 by Martin Clancy and Tim O'Brien. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Clancy, Martin.

Murder at the Supreme Court : lethal crimes and landmark cases / by Martin Clancy and Tim O'Brien.

        p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61614-648-1 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-61614-649-8 (ebook)

1. Capital punishment—United States. 2. United States. Supreme Court—Cases. 3. Discrimination in capital punishment—United States. I. O'Brien, Tim. II. Title.

KF9227.C2C54 2013
345.73'0773–dc23

2012040642

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper