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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962395603321

Titolo

Is the death penalty dying? / / edited by Austin Sarat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston ; ; Amsterdam, : Elsevier, c2008

ISBN

9786611145101

9781281145109

1281145106

9781849505604

1849505608

9780080557281

0080557287

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Studies in law, politics, and society ; ; v. 42, special issue

Altri autori (Persone)

SaratAustin

Disciplina

345.0773

Soggetti

Capital punishment

Criminal law & procedure

Penology & punishment

Law - Criminal Law - General

Political Science - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.