| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations |
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Constitutional conflicts |
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Constitutional conflicts.
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Capital punishment
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Garvey, Stephen P., 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822384038 |
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0822384035 |
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1283064200 |
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9781283064200 |
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9786613064202 |
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6613064203 |
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