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The Road to Abolition? : the Future of Capital Punishment in the United States.

At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ogletree, Charles J.
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2009.
Colección:Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race & Justice.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward and Beyond the Abolition of Capital Punishment; PART I. ASSESSING THE PROSPECTS FOR ABOLITION; 1 The Executioner's Waning Defenses; 2 Blinded by Science on the Road to Abolition?; 3 Abolition in the United States by 2050: On Political Capital and Ordinary Acts of Resistance; 4 The Beginning of the End?; 5 Rocked but Still Rolling: The Enduring Institution of Capital Punishment in Historical and Comparative Perspective; PART II. DEBATING LETHAL INJECTION; 6 For Execution Methods Challenges, the Road to Abolition Is Paved with Paradox. 
505 8 |a 7 Perfect Execution: Abolitionism and the Paradox of Lethal Injection8 "No Improvement over Electrocution or Even a Bullet": Lethal Injection and the Meaning of Speed and Reliability in the Modern Execution Process; PART III. PUTTING THE DEATH PENALTY IN CONTEXT; 9 Torture, War, and Capital Punishment: Linkages and Missed Connections; 10 Making Difference: Modernity and the Political Formations of Death; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
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