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1 online resource (385 pages) |
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Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race & Justice |
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Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race & Justice
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward and Beyond the Abolition of Capital Punishment; PART I. ASSESSING THE PROSPECTS FOR ABOLITION; 1 The Executioner's Waning Defenses; 2 Blinded by Science on the Road to Abolition?; 3 Abolition in the United States by 2050: On Political Capital and Ordinary Acts of Resistance; 4 The Beginning of the End?; 5 Rocked but Still Rolling: The Enduring Institution of Capital Punishment in Historical and Comparative Perspective; PART II. DEBATING LETHAL INJECTION; 6 For Execution Methods Challenges, the Road to Abolition Is Paved with Paradox |
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7 Perfect Execution: Abolitionism and the Paradox of Lethal Injection8 "No Improvement over Electrocution or Even a Bullet": Lethal Injection and the Meaning of Speed and Reliability in the Modern Execution Process; PART III. PUTTING THE DEATH PENALTY IN CONTEXT; 9 Torture, War, and Capital Punishment: Linkages and Missed Connections; 10 Making Difference: Modernity and the Political Formations of Death; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in attitudes toward capital punishment, and consider whether or not the death penalty will ever be abolished in America. The interdisciplinary group of experts gathered by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., and Au |
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| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States
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LAW -- Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
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Capital punishment
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sarat, Austin
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| ISBN |
9780814762547 |
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0814762549 |
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