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UNINA9910815205803321 |
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Titolo |
The road to abolition? : the future of capital punishment in the United States / / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat |
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New York, : New York University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-8147-6254-9 |
1-4416-3384-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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OgletreeCharles J |
SaratAustin |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Capital punishment - United States |
Punishment - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- 6. For Execution Methods Challenges, the Road to Abolition Is Paved with Paradox -- 7. Perfect Execution -- 8. “No Improvement over Electrocution or Even a Bullet” -- 9. Torture, War, and Capital Punishment -- 10. Making Difference -- About the Contributors -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 Austin Sarat ask and attempt to answer the hard questions that need to be addressed if the death penalty is to be abolished. Will the death penalty end only to be |
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