Contains scholarly essays on the possibility that capital punishment might be abolished in the United States in the twenty-first century, discussing the decline in the number of people being sentenced to death, and exploring the idea that life without parole will replace the death penalty in the United States.
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The road to abolition?: the future of capital punishment in the United States
2009, New York University Press
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0814762174 9780814762172
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Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States
2009, New York University Press
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Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States
2009, New York University Press
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0814762549 9780814762547
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Table of Contents
Introduction : toward and beyond the abolition of capital punishment / Charles Ogletree and Austin Sarat. Pt. I. Assessing the prospects for abolition. The executioner's waning defenses : the eroding defense of the executioner / Michael L. Radelet
Blinded by science on the road to abolition? / Simon A. Cole and Jay D. Aronson
Abolition in the U.S.A. by 2050 : on political capital and ordinary acts of resistance / Bernard E. Harcourt
The beginning of the end? / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker
Rocked but still rolling : the enduring institution of capital punishment in historical and comparative perspective / Michael McCann and David T. Johnson
Pt. II. For execution methods challenges, the road to abolition is paved with paradox. For execution methods challenges, the road to abolition is paved with paradox / Deborah W. Denno
Perfect execution : abolitionism and the paradox of lethal injection / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
No improvement over electrocution or even a bullet? : lethal injection and the meaning of speed and reliability in the modern execution process / Jürgen Martschukat
Pt. III. Putting the death penalty in context. Torture, war, and capital punishment : linkages and missed connections / Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Making difference : modernity and the political dimensions of death / Peter Fitzpatrick.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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