Garvey / Devins / Graber Beyond Repair?

America's Death Penalty
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8403-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Constitutional conflicts

Essays offer a new challenge to the death penalty's legitimacy, in light of new empirical research and case studies, and against the backdrop of international law and recent changes in U.S. domestic law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garvey, Stephen P.

Devins, Neal

Graber, Mark A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gross, Samuel R.

Ellsworth, Phoebe C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Stephen P. Garvey

1: Second Thoughts: Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century / Samuel R. Gross & Phoebe C. Ellsworth

2: Capital Punishment, Federal Courts, and the Writ of Habeas Corpus / Larry W. Yackle

3: “Until I Can Be Sure”: How the Threat of Executing the Innocent Has Transformed the Death Penalty Debate / Ken Armstrong & Steve Mills

4: Race and Capital Punishment / Sheri Lynn Johnson

5: Lessons from the Capital Jury Project / John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, & Stephen P. Garvey

6: International Law and the Abolition of the Death Penalty / William A. Schabas

Postscript: The Peculiar Present of American Capital Punishment / Franklin E. Zimring

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen P. Garvey is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.