Beyond Repair? : America's Death Penalty /

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Essays offer a new challenge to the death penalty's legitimacy, in light of new empirical research and case studies, and against the backdrop of international law and recent changes in U.S. domestic law.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Garvey, Stephen P., 1965- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Capital punishment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Peine de mort > États-Unis.
Capital punishment > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Second thoughts: Americans' views on the death penalty at the turn of the century / Samuel R. Gross, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
  • Capital punishment, federal courts, and the writ of habeas corpus / Larry W. Yackle
  • "Until I can be sure" : how the threat of executing the innocent has transformed the death penalty debate / Ken Armstrong, Steve Mills
  • Race and capital punishment / Sheri Lynn Johnson
  • Lessons from the capital jury project / John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey
  • International law and the abolition of the death penalty / William A. Schabas
  • Postscript: the peculiar present of American capital punishment / Franklin E. Zimring.

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