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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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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Editor
- Contributors
- Part 1: Miscarriages of Justice and Innocence
- Chapter 1. Errors in Capital Cases and What Can Be Done about Them
- Chapter 2. Scrutinizing the Death Penalty: State Death Penalty Study Commssions and Their Recommendations
- Chapter 3. Themes of Wrongful Executions in the Post-Furman Era*
- Chapter 4. Making It Work: Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted
- Chapter 5. A Painless Cocktail? The Lethal Injection Controversy
- Part 2: Death Penalty Opinion, Media Access to Executions, Consensual Executions, and the Relationship between Lynching and the Death Penalty
- Chapter 6. AssessingScholarly Opinion of Capital Punishment: The Experts Speak
- Chapter 7. Police Managersâ Attitudes toward Capital Punishment
- Chapter 8. TheUnitedStates Canât Televise an Execution Because It Will Make Condemned MenFeel Bad about theDeath Penalty: Issues Raised by the Suit to Make McVeigh's Execution Public
- Chapter 9. âLetâsDo It!â: An Analysis of Consensual Executions
- Chapter 10. SomeHypotheses about Capital Punishment and Lynching
- Index
- Back cover