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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809494103321

Autore

Haines Herbert H

Titolo

Against capital punishment : the anti-death penalty movement in America, 1972-1994 / / Herbert H. Haines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-774300-5

0-19-802493-2

9786610534883

1-280-53488-5

1-282-38413-9

9786612384134

0-19-535106-1

1-60256-400-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii,265p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

364.660973

Soggetti

Capital punishment - United States

Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p221-237. -Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a full account of anti-death penalty activism in America during the years since the ten-year moratorium on executions ended in 1976. It traces the successful assault on capital punishment during the 1960s, and the struggle of abolitionists against the backlash since the mid-1970s.