TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarat,Austin
TI  - Is the death penalty dying?
T2  - Studies in law, politics, and society
SN  - 9780080557281
AV  - K18 .E837eb vol. 42
U1  - 345/.0773 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amsterdam, Oxford
PB  - Elsevier JAI
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - Capital Punishment
KW  - Peine de mort
KW  - Criminal law & procedure
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Penology & punishment
KW  - Law
KW  - Criminal Law
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political Science
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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 -- Not wiser 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 use of international and foreign law in death penalty cases: a poisoned chalice? / Bharat Malkani -- Death, unraveled / Jesse Cheng
N2  - 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 the status 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 by legal scholars from different disciplines. This is a special issue examining the death penalty in the US. It draws together an array of distinguished scholars from political science, criminology, sociology, and law
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