Cargando…
Stay of execution : saving the death penalty from itself /
The United States stands alone as the only Western democracy that still practices capital punishment. Yet the American death penalty has gone into noticeable decline, with annual death sentences and executions dwindling steadily in recent years. In Stay of Execution, Charles Lane offers a fresh anal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & LittleField Publishers,
c2010.
|
| Colección: | Hoover studies in politics, economics, and society.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The United States stands alone as the only Western democracy that still practices capital punishment. Yet the American death penalty has gone into noticeable decline, with annual death sentences and executions dwindling steadily in recent years. In Stay of Execution, Charles Lane offers a fresh analysis of this unexpected trend and its moral and political implications. Countering conventional wisdom that attributes the death penalty's decline to public rejection of the "ultimate sanction," he showsthat it is instead related to the ebbing of violent crime itself. The death penalty is not only m. |
|---|---|
| Notas: | "Published in cooperation with Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 164 p.). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-157) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442203808 1442203803 1282820494 9781282820494 9786612820496 6612820497 |