03467oam 2200721Ia 450 991078500000332120221219202728.01-281-14510-697866111451011-84950-560-80-08-055728-7(CKB)1000000000407266(EBL)330147(OCoLC)781411651(SSID)ssj0000331299(PQKBManifestationID)11275218(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000331299(PQKBWorkID)10326374(PQKB)11621157(OCoLC)567912051(OCoLC)ocn191735786(MiAaPQ)EBC330147(PPN)187304041(EXLCZ)99100000000040726620080131d2008 uy 0engurun|||||||||txtccrIs the death penalty dying? Special issue /edited by Austin Sarat1st ed.Boston ;Amsterdam Elsevierc20081 online resource (229 p.)Studies in law, politics, and society ;v. 42, special issueDescription based upon print version of record.0-7623-1467-2 Includes bibliographical references.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.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.Studies in law, politics, and society ;v. 42, special issue.Capital punishmentCriminal law & procedurebicsscPenology & punishmentbicsscLawCriminal LawGeneralbisacshPolitical ScienceGeneralbisacshCapital punishment.Criminal law & procedure.Penology & punishment.LawCriminal LawGeneral.Political ScienceGeneral.345.0773Sarat Austin254475N$TN$TYDXCPOCLCQMERUCZJCBOOK9910785000003321Is the death penalty dying3781590UNINA