The Death Penalty Today
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The Death Penalty Today

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Death Penalty Today

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More than 30 years after the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, it is still plagued with egregious problems. Issues of wrongful conviction, inhumane practices, and its efficacy as a deterrent are hotly debated topics. As of August 2007, two-thirds of the worlds countries have abolished the death penalty. Today, the US falls alongside I

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781420070125
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Criminal Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Editor
  5. Contributors
  6. Part 1: Miscarriages of Justice and Innocence
  7. Chapter 1. Errors in Capital Cases and What Can Be Done about Them
  8. Chapter 2. Scrutinizing the Death Penalty: State Death Penalty Study Commssions and Their Recommendations
  9. Chapter 3. Themes of Wrongful Executions in the Post-Furman Era*
  10. Chapter 4. Making It Work: Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted
  11. Chapter 5. A Painless Cocktail? The Lethal Injection Controversy
  12. Part 2: Death Penalty Opinion, Media Access to Executions, Consensual Executions, and the Relationship between Lynching and the Death Penalty
  13. Chapter 6. AssessingScholarly Opinion of Capital Punishment: The Experts Speak
  14. Chapter 7. Police Managers’ Attitudes toward Capital Punishment
  15. Chapter 8. TheUnitedStates Can’t Televise an Execution Because It Will Make Condemned MenFeel Bad about theDeath Penalty: Issues Raised by the Suit to Make McVeigh's Execution Public
  16. Chapter 9. “Let’sDo It!”: An Analysis of Consensual Executions
  17. Chapter 10. SomeHypotheses about Capital Punishment and Lynching
  18. Index
  19. Back cover