The road to abolition? : the future of capital punishment in the United States /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
c2009
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| Series: | Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : toward and beyond the abolition of capital punishment / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat
- Pt. I. Assessing the prospects for abolition. The executioner's waning defenses / Michael L. Radelet
- Blinded by science on the road to abolition? / Simon A. Cole and Jay D. Aronson
- Abolition in the United States by 2050 : on political capital and ordinary acts of resistance / Bernard E. Harcourt
- The beginning of the end? / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker
- Rocked but still rolling : the enduring institution of capital punishment in historical and comparative perspective / Michael McCann and David T. Johnson
- Pt. II. Debating lethal injection. For execution methods challenges, the road to abolition is paved with paradox / Deborah W. Denno
- Perfect execution : abolitionism and the paradox of lethal injection / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
- "No improvement over electrocution or even a bullet" : lethal injection and the meaning of speed and reliability in the modern execution process / Jürgen Martschukat
- Pt. III. Putting the death penalty in context. Torture, war, and capital punishment : linkages and missed connections / Robin Wagner-Pacifici
- Making difference : modernity and the political formations of death / Peter Fitzpatrick