Stay of execution : saving the death penalty from itself / Charles Lane.

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Lane, Charles, 1961-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Hoover studies in politics, economics, and societyPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & LittleField Publishers, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 164 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442203808
1442203803
1282820494
9781282820494
9786612820496
6612820497

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stay of executionDDC classification:

364.660973 22

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HV8699.U5

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Contents:

The disappearance of death? -- The case against the case against the death penalty -- The case against the case for the death penalty -- A special penalty for special cases.

Summary: The United States stands alone as the only Western democracy that still practices capital punishment. Yet the American death penalty has gone into noticeable decline, with annual death sentences and executions dwindling steadily in recent years. In Stay of Execution, Charles Lane offers a fresh analysis of this unexpected trend and its moral and political implications. Countering conventional wisdom that attributes the death penalty's decline to public rejection of the "ultimate sanction," he showsthat it is instead related to the ebbing of violent crime itself. The death penalty is not only m.

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"Published in cooperation with Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-157) and index.

The disappearance of death? -- The case against the case against the death penalty -- The case against the case for the death penalty -- A special penalty for special cases.

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The United States stands alone as the only Western democracy that still practices capital punishment. Yet the American death penalty has gone into noticeable decline, with annual death sentences and executions dwindling steadily in recent years. In Stay of Execution, Charles Lane offers a fresh analysis of this unexpected trend and its moral and political implications. Countering conventional wisdom that attributes the death penalty's decline to public rejection of the "ultimate sanction," he showsthat it is instead related to the ebbing of violent crime itself. The death penalty is not only m.

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