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Is the death penalty dying?

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Is the death penalty dying?/ edited by Austin Sarat.
other author:	Sarat, Austin.
Published:	Amsterdam ;Elsevier JAI, : 2008.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 218 p.)
Subject:	Capital punishment. -
Online resource:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1059-4337/42
ISBN:	9781849505604 (electronic bk.)

Is the death penalty dying?
Is the death penalty dying?[electronic resource] /edited by Austin Sarat. - Amsterdam ;Elsevier JAI,2008. - 1 online resource (x, 218 p.) - Studies in law, politics, and society ;v. 42, special issue. - Studies in law, politics, and society ;v. 30..

Evolutionary history: the changing purposes for capital punishment /Beau Breslin, John J.P. Howley and Molly Appel -- The heart has its reasons: examining the strange persistence of the American death penalty / Susan A. Bandes -- Rule of law abolitionism / Benjamin S. Yost -- Notwiser after 35 years of contemplating the death penalty / Leigh B. Bienen -- Facts and furies: the antinomies of facts, law, and retribution in the work of capital prosecutors / Paul J. Kaplan -- The judicial useof international and foreign law in death penalty cases: a poisoned chalice? / Bharat Malkani -- Death, unraveled / Jesse Cheng.

This volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" presents a unique special issue "Is the Death Penalty Dying?." Drawing together an array of distinguished scholars from political science,criminology, sociology, and law, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of thestatus of the death penalty in the United States, its past, and its trajectory for the future. Taken together, the work published in this volume exemplifies the kind exciting and innovative work now being done bylegal scholars from different disciplines.This is a special issue examining the death penalty in theUS. It draws together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law.

ISBN: 9781849505604 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

803332
Capital punishment.

LC Class. No.: K18 / .E837 v. 42

Dewey Class. No.: 345/.0773

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 340

Is the death penalty dying?
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