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Deadly justice : a statistical portrait of the death penalty /
Forty years and 1,400 executions after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty constitutional, eminent political scientist Frank Baumgartner and a team of younger scholars have collaborated to assess the empirical record and provide a definitive account of how the death penalty has been imple...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Furman, Gregg, and the Creation of the Modern Death Penalty
- 2. The Capital Punishment Process
- 3. Homicide in America
- 4. Comparing Homicides with Execution Cases
- 5. Capital-Eligible Crimes: Is the Death Penalty Reserved for the Worst of the Worst?
- 6. Which Jurisdictions Execute and Which Ones Don't?
- 7. How Often Are Death Sentences Overturned?
- 8. How Long Does It Take?
- 9. How Often Are People Exonerated from Death Row?
- 10. Methods of Execution
- 11. How Often Are Executions Delayed or Canceled?
- 12. Mental Health
- 13. How Deep Is Public Support for the Death Penalty?
- 14. Why Does the Death Penalty Cost So Much?
- 15. Does the Death Penalty Deter?
- 16. Is the Death Penalty Dying?
- 17. Does the Modern Death Penalty Meet the Goals of Furman?
- Epilogue: How This Book Came About
- Notes
- References.