LEADER 03757nam 22005414 450 001 9910136111403321 005 20211223090143.0 010 $a9780674974838 010 $a0674974832 010 $a9780674974852 010 $a0674974859 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674974852 035 $a(CKB)3710000000915103 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4723271 035 $a(DE-B1597)479745 035 $a(OCoLC)984665874 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674974852 035 $a(Perlego)3122166 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000915103 100 $a20161105d2016 my 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cn$2rdamedia 183 $anc$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCourting Death $eThe Supreme Court and Capital Punishment /$fCarol S. Steiker, Jordan M. Steiker 210 34$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d2016 215 $a390 pages$d25 cm 300 $aIncludes Index (pp. 377-390) 320 $aIncludes Bibliographical References (pp. 325-372) 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Before Constitutional Regulation --$t2. The Supreme Court Steps In --$t3. The Invisibility of Race in the Constitutional Revolution --$t4. Between the Supreme Court and the States --$t5. The Failures of Regulation --$t6. An Unsustainable System? --$t7. Recurring Patterns in Constitutional Regulation --$t8. The Future of the American Death Penalty --$t9. Life after Death --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aUnique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the face of widespread abolition of the death penalty around the world, provisions for capital punishment that had long fallen under the purview of the states were challenged in federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in two landmark decisions, first by constitutionally invalidating the death penalty in Furman v. Georgia (1972) on the grounds that it was capricious and discriminatory, followed four years later by restoring it in Gregg v. Georgia (1976). Since then, by neither retaining capital punishment in unfettered form nor abolishing it outright, the Supreme Court has created a complex regulatory apparatus that has brought executions in many states to a halt, while also failing to address the problems that led the Court to intervene in the first place. While execution chambers remain active in several states, constitutional regulation has contributed to the death penalty?s new fragility. In the next decade or two, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue, the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment. Courting Death illuminates both the promise and pitfalls of constitutional regulation of contentious social issues. 606 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States 606 $aJudicial review$zUnited States 606 $aDiscrimination in capital punishment$zUnited States 606 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aCapital punishment 615 0$aJudicial review 615 0$aDiscrimination in capital punishment 615 0$aCapital punishment$xHistory. 676 $a345.73/0773 700 $aSteiker$b Carol S.$01070845 701 $aSteiker$b Jordan M$gAuthor$01070846 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 2$bC7V 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136111403321 996 $aCourting Death$92565216 997 $aUNINA