Is the death penalty dying?

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 th...

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Other Authors: Sarat, Austin.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2008.
Series: Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 42, special issue.
Subjects:
Capital punishment.
Criminal law & procedure.
Penology & punishment.
Law > Criminal Law > General.
Political Science > General.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781849505604 (electronic bk.) :
1849505608 (electronic bk.) :
0762314672 (hbk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 218 p.)

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505 0 |a 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. 
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