Against capital punishment : the anti-death penalty movement in America, 1972-1994 /
While most western democracies have renounced the death penalty, capital punishment has growing support in the United States. A significant and vocal minority continues to oppose it. This is an account of anti-death penalty activism in America since the ten-year moratorium on executions ended.
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Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Death penalty abolitionism in America
- The fall and rise of capital punishment: 1965-1976
- The return of the executioner: 1976-1982
- The reemergence of political abolitionism
- Framing disputes in the movement against capital punishment
- Abolitionism at the crossroads
- Reframing capital punishment: pragmatic abolitionism
- Afterword: Spring, 1999.