TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,Charles
TI  - Stay of execution: saving the death penalty from itself 
T2  - Hoover studies in politics, economics, and society
SN  - 9781442203808
AV  - HV8699.U5 
U1  - 364.660973 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Rowman & LittleField Publishers
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Peine de mort
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Penology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "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
N2  - 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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