Against capital punishment : the anti-death penalty movement in America, 1972-1994 /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Haines, Herbert H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Capital punishment > United States.
Capital punishment > United States > History > 20th century.
Peine de mort > États-Unis.
Peine de mort > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Capital punishment
Peine de mort > Etats-Unis.
United States
History
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.

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