Symbolic Statutes and Real Laws: The Pathologies of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Prison Litigation Reform Act | Zendy

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Symbolic Statutes and Real Laws: The Pathologies of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Prison Litigation Reform Act

Author(s) -

Mark Tushnet,

Larry Yackle

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

duke law journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.436

H-Index - 42

eISSN - 1939-9111

pISSN - 0012-7086

DOI - 10.2307/1372860

Subject(s) - statute , law , political science , prison , statute of limitations , criminology , sociology

Criminals are not popular. No politician in recent memory has lost an election for being too tough on crime. In 1996, the Republican Congress and the Democratic President collaborated on two major statutes affecting the legal protections available to criminals. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) modifies the habeas corpus statute in a number of ways, affecting the disposition of federal post-conviction challenges to all criminal convictions, not just those resulting in death sentences. The

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