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Is the death penalty dying? /

This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a unique special issue "Is the Death Penalty Dying?." Drawing together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2008.
Colección:Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 42, special issue.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evolutionary history: the changing purposes for capital punishment / Beau Breslin, John J.P. Howley and Molly Appel
  • The heart has its reasons: examining the strange persistence of the American death penalty / Susan A. Bandes
  • Rule of law abolitionism / Benjamin S. Yost
  • Not wiser after 35 years of contemplating the death penalty / Leigh B. Bienen
  • Facts and furies: the antinomies of facts, law, and retribution in the work of capital prosecutors / Paul J. Kaplan
  • The judicial use of international and foreign law in death penalty cases: a poisoned chalice? / Bharat Malkani
  • Death, unraveled / Jesse Cheng.