Stay of execution : saving the death penalty from itself / / Charles Lane
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| Autore: |
Lane Charles <1961->
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| Titolo: |
Stay of execution : saving the death penalty from itself / / Charles Lane
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : Rowman & LittleField Publishers, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.660973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Capital punishment - United States |
| Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Chapter 01. The Disappearance of Death?; Chapter 02. The Case Against the Case Against the Death Penalty; Chapter 03. The Case Against the Case for the Death Penalty; Chapter 04. A Special Penalty for Special Cases; Acknowledgements; Endnotes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The United States stands alone as the only Western democracy that still practices capital punishment. Yet the American death penalty has gone into noticeable decline, with annual death sentences and executions dwindling steadily in recent years. In Stay of Execution, Charles Lane offers a fresh analysis of this unexpected trend and its moral and political implications. Countering conventional wisdom that attributes the death penalty's decline to public rejection of the ""ultimate sanction,"" he showsthat it is instead related to the ebbing of violent crime itself. The death penalty is not only |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Stay of execution |
| ISBN: | 1-282-82049-4 |
| 9786612820496 | |
| 1-4422-0380-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812074703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Hoover studies in politics, economics, and society.