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Courting death : the Supreme Court and capital punishment /

"Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regula...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Steiker, Carol S. (Carol Susan) (Autor), Steiker, Jordan M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : regulating the death penalty to death
  • Before constitutional regulation
  • The Supreme Court steps in
  • The invisibility of race in the constitutional revolution
  • Between the Supreme Court and the states
  • The failures of regulation
  • An unsustainable system?
  • Recurring patterns in constitutional regulation
  • The future of the American death penalty
  • Life after death.