Stephen P. Garvey (ed.)

Beyond Repair?

America's Death Penalty
Herausgeber: Garvey, Stephen P

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This collection is an indispensable guide to the new learning on the death penalty, and to the reasons why capital punishment has suddenly become one of the nation's most pressing issues of public policy and debate."--James S. Liebman, Columbia Law School

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780822329602
• ISBN-10: 0822329603
• Artikelnr.: 21236335

Autorenporträt

Stephen P. Garvey is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
> Introduction / Stephen P. Garvey
1 : Second Thoughts: Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of
the Century / Samuel R. Gross & Phoebe C. Ellsworth
2 : Capital Punishment, Federal Courts, and the Writ of Habeas Corpus /
Larry W. Yackle
3 : “Until I Can Be Sure”: How the Threat of Executing the Innocent Has
Transformed the Death Penalty Debate / Ken Armstrong & Steve Mills
4 : Race and Capital Punishment / Sheri Lynn Johnson
5 : Lessons from the Capital Jury Project / John H. Blume, Theodore
Eisenberg, & Stephen P. Garvey
6 : International Law and the Abolition of the Death Penalty / William A.
Schabas
Postscript: The Peculiar Present of American Capital Punishment / Franklin
E. Zimring
Contributors
Index