Death justice [[electronic resource] ] : Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and the contradictions of the death penalty / / Kenneth W. Miller and David Niven

• Autore: Miller Kenneth W (Kenneth Wayne)
• Pubblicazione: El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 345.73/0773
• Soggetto topico: Capital punishment - United States
• Altri autori: NivenDavid <1971->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-232) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Consistency is the very foundation of the rule of law -- The death penalty in american law and politics -- Speaking for the public in death penalty decisions -- Defending the states in death penalty decisions -- The wisdom of jurors in death penalty decisions -- The legal and political implications -- The culture battle -- Death penalty policy: breaking the mold.
• Sommario/riassunto: Justice Scalia has warned of the danger of fallacies that pass for truth simply because they are frequently repeated. Death Justice argues that one fallacy that passes for truth is the widely held notion that Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas applied a fixed standard--itself based on a fixed meaning of the Constitution--to death penalty cases. In defiance of their judicial rhetoric, their conclusions simply defy their, or any, conception of consistency. And without a logical, consistent foundation, their findings on the death penalty come to resemble little more than personal political
• Titolo autorizzato: Death justice
• ISBN: 1-59332-545-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814044903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II