Is Trial by Combat Constitutionally Permissible?

I am really only concerned here with trial by combat in a criminal case in the federal courts of the United States. So if your interest is in trial by combat in contract actions in Nebraska, you will have to look elsewhere.

Was Dolores Claiborne guilty? Abandonment of Attempts & Causing the Conditions of Own Defense

The Stephen King novel “Dolores Claiborne” and the movie and opera by the same name raise two interesting and arcane matters of the criminal law of attempts and self defense.