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Title Race and the death penalty : the legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp / David P. Keys and R.J. Maratea
Published Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2016

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Contents McCleskey v. Kemp and the reaffirmation of separate but equal / by David Keys and R.J. Maratea -- Revisiting McCleskey v Kemp : a failure of sociological imagination? / by Tony G. Poveda -- McCleskey and the lingering problem of race / by Ross Kleinstuber -- Overcoming moral peril : how empirical research can affect death penalty debates / by R.J. Maratea -- Capital sentencing and structural racism : the source of bias / by Gennaro F. Vito and George E. Higgins -- Capital case processing in Georgia after McCleskey : more of the same / by Jacqueline Ghislaine Lee, Ray Paternoster, and Michael Rocque -- Addressing contradictions with the social psychology of capital juries and racial bias / by Jamie L. Flexon -- Nothing succeeds like failure : race, decision-making, and proportionality in Oklahoma homicide trials, 1973-2010 / by David Keys and John F. Galliher -- Why is the death penalty needed? / by Robert M. Bohm -- The death penalty's dirty little secret / by Franklin E. Zimring -- Race of victim and American capital punishment / by Franklin E. Zimring
Summary In what has been called the Dred Scott decision of our times, the US Supreme Court found in McCleskey v. Kemp that evidence of overwhelming racial disparities in the capital punishment process could not be admitted in individual capital cases-in effect institutionalizing a racially unequal system of criminal justice. Exploring the enduring legacy of this radical decision nearly three decades later, the authors of Race and the Death Penalty examine the persistence of racial discrimination in the practice of capital punishment, the dynamics that drive it, and the human consequences of both
Analysis McCleskey v. Kemp
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Capital punishment -- United States
Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Capital punishment
Discrimination in capital punishment
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Rassendiskriminierung
Rassismus
Todesstrafe
United States
USA
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Keys, David P
Maratea, R. J., 1973-
ISBN 9781626375130
1626375135