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Capital Punishment and the American Agenda
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521378635
Veröffentl:
2009
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.03.2009
Seiten:
212
Autor:
Franklin E. Zimring
Gewicht:
352 g
Format:
229x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book redefines the central political and legal issues of the death penalty in the light of the social, political, and moral conditions of the United States.
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. The Road to 1987: 1. The rest of the Western world; 2. The long-term trend that failed; 3. The death penalty and the Eighth Amendment; 4. A punishment in search of a crime; Part II. Futures and Consequences: 5. A game of chicken; 6. Only in America: some notes on lethal injection; 7. Life in a country that kills; 8. The path to abolition; Appendix: deterrence and the death penalty; Index.