Austin Sarat

The Death Penalty on the Ballot

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on what happens when the American public gets decide on the fate of capital punishment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9781108482103
• ISBN-10: 1108482104
• Artikelnr.: 54801963

Autorenporträt

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, Massachusetts. He is author or editor of over ninety books in the fields of law and political science, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty (2014). His book When Government Breaks the Law: The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration (2010) was named one of the best books of 2010 by The Huffington Post.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: when the death penalty goes public
2. Retention, abolition, and restoration in the early days of the death penalty referendum process
3. The people versus their representatives: going to the polls to support capital punishment
4. Targeting the courts
5. A tool for abolition?
6. Conclusion: democracy and the fate of capital punishment.