Author: Brandon Garrett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674970993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
An awakening -- Inevitability of innocence -- Mercy vs. justice -- The great American death penalty decline -- The defense lawyering effect -- Murder insurance -- The other death penalty -- The execution decline -- End game -- The triumph of mercy
End of Its Rope
Author: Brandon Garrett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674970993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
An awakening -- Inevitability of innocence -- Mercy vs. justice -- The great American death penalty decline -- The defense lawyering effect -- Murder insurance -- The other death penalty -- The execution decline -- End game -- The triumph of mercy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674970993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
An awakening -- Inevitability of innocence -- Mercy vs. justice -- The great American death penalty decline -- The defense lawyering effect -- Murder insurance -- The other death penalty -- The execution decline -- End game -- The triumph of mercy
Reports on the Abolition of Capital Punishment
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. Committee on Capital Punishment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Report and Bills Relating to the Abolition of Capital Punishment
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. Committee on Capital Punishment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Executions in the United States, 1608-1987
Author: M. Watt Espy
Publisher: Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This study furnishes data on executions performed in the United States under civil authority. It includes a description of each individual executed and the circumstances surrounding the crime for which the person was convicted. Variables include age, race, name, sex, and occupation of the offender, place, jurisdiction, date and method of execution and the crime for which the offender was executed.
Publisher: Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This study furnishes data on executions performed in the United States under civil authority. It includes a description of each individual executed and the circumstances surrounding the crime for which the person was convicted. Variables include age, race, name, sex, and occupation of the offender, place, jurisdiction, date and method of execution and the crime for which the offender was executed.
Slavery and the Death Penalty
Author: Bharat Malkani
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367899035
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country's history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the lesser-explored relationship between the two practices' respective abolitionist movements. The book explains how the historical and conceptual links between slavery and capital punishment have both helped and hindered efforts to end capital punishment. The comparative study also sheds light on the nature of such efforts, and offers lessons for how death penalty abolitionism should proceed in future. Using the history of slavery and abolition, it is argued that anti-death penalty efforts should be premised on the ideologies of the radical slavery abolitionists.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367899035
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country's history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the lesser-explored relationship between the two practices' respective abolitionist movements. The book explains how the historical and conceptual links between slavery and capital punishment have both helped and hindered efforts to end capital punishment. The comparative study also sheds light on the nature of such efforts, and offers lessons for how death penalty abolitionism should proceed in future. Using the history of slavery and abolition, it is argued that anti-death penalty efforts should be premised on the ideologies of the radical slavery abolitionists.
Report of the Society ... January, 1865. (January 1866.).
Author: Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Peculiar Institution
Author: David Garland
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674058488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states– a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being carried out in individual cases, none of which seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenacity and shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America’s political institutions and cultural conflicts. America’s radical federalism and local democracy, as well as its legacy of violence and racism, account for our divergence from the rest of the West. Whereas the elites of other nations were able to impose nationwide abolition from above despite public objections, American elites are unable– and unwilling– to end a punishment that has the support of local majorities and a storied place in popular culture. In the course of hundreds of decisions, federal courts sought to rationalize and civilize an institution that too often resembled a lynching, producing layers of legal process but also delays and reversals. Yet the Supreme Court insists that the issue is to be decided by local political actors and public opinion. So the death penalty continues to respond to popular will, enhancing the power of criminal justice professionals, providing drama for the media, and bringing pleasure to a public audience who consumes its chilling tales. Garland brings a new clarity to our understanding of this peculiar institution– and a new challenge to supporters and opponents alike.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674058488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states– a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being carried out in individual cases, none of which seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenacity and shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America’s political institutions and cultural conflicts. America’s radical federalism and local democracy, as well as its legacy of violence and racism, account for our divergence from the rest of the West. Whereas the elites of other nations were able to impose nationwide abolition from above despite public objections, American elites are unable– and unwilling– to end a punishment that has the support of local majorities and a storied place in popular culture. In the course of hundreds of decisions, federal courts sought to rationalize and civilize an institution that too often resembled a lynching, producing layers of legal process but also delays and reversals. Yet the Supreme Court insists that the issue is to be decided by local political actors and public opinion. So the death penalty continues to respond to popular will, enhancing the power of criminal justice professionals, providing drama for the media, and bringing pleasure to a public audience who consumes its chilling tales. Garland brings a new clarity to our understanding of this peculiar institution– and a new challenge to supporters and opponents alike.
Report in favor of the abolition of punishment of death, by law, made to the Legislature of the State of New York. April 14. 1841. Second edition
Author: John Louis O'SULLIVAN
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Report of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment
Author: Society for the abolition of capital punishment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Report in Favor of the Abolition of the Punishment of Death by Law
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Select Committee on Capital Punishment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description