Is the death penalty dying? [electronic resource] / edited by Austin Sarat.
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TextSeries: Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 42, special issue.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2008Description: 1 online resource (x, 218 p.)ISBN: 9781849505604 (electronic bk.) :; 1849505608 (electronic bk.) :Subject(s): Capital punishment | Criminal law & procedure | Penology & punishment | Law -- Criminal Law -- General | Political Science -- GeneralAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Is the death penalty dying?.DDC classification: 345/.0773 LOC classification: K18 | .E837 v. 42Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Evolutionary history: the changing purposes for capital punishment / Beau Breslin, John J.P. Howley and Molly Appel -- The heart has its reasons: examining the strange persistence of the American death penalty / Susan A. Bandes -- Rule of law abolitionism / Benjamin S. Yost -- Not wiser after 35 years of contemplating the death penalty / Leigh B. Bienen -- Facts and furies: the antinomies of facts, law, and retribution in the work of capital prosecutors / Paul J. Kaplan -- The judicial use of international and foreign law in death penalty cases: a poisoned chalice? / Bharat Malkani -- Death, unraveled / Jesse Cheng.
This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a unique special issue "Is the Death Penalty Dying?." Drawing together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the status of the death penalty in the United States, its past, and its trajectory for the future. Taken together, the work published in this volume exemplifies the kind exciting and innovative work now being done by legal scholars from different disciplines.This is a special issue examining the death penalty in the US. It draws together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law.
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