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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Steiker, Carol S. (Carol Susan) (Author), Steiker, Jordan M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Supreme Court
Capital punishment > United States.
Judicial review > United States.
Discrimination in capital punishment > United States.
Capital punishment > United States > History.
Peine de mort > États-Unis.
Contrôle juridictionnel des lois > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans l'application de la peine de mort > États-Unis.
Peine de mort > États-Unis > Histoire.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
LAW / Constitutional
Capital punishment
Discrimination in capital punishment
Judicial review
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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