Race and the death penalty : the legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp / edited by David P. Keys, R.J. Maratea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keys, David P., editor.

Maratea, R. J., 1973- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment--United States.

Capital punishment.

United States.

Discrimination in capital punishment--United States.

Discrimination in capital punishment.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Physical Description:

xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2016.

Contents:

Racial bias and capital punishment / Richard C. Dieter

Part 1. The Crisis of Race and Capital Punishment. McCleskey v. Kemp and the reaffirmation of separate but equal / David P. Keys and R.J. Maratea

Revisiting McCleskey v. Kemp : a failure of sociological imagination? / Tony G. Poveda

McCleskey and the lingering problem of "race" / Ross Kleinstuber

Part 2. Race, Class, and Capital Sentencing. Overcoming moral peril : how empirical research can affect death penalty debates / R.J. Maratea

Capital sentencing and structural racism : the source of bias / Gennaro F. Vito and George E. Higgins

Capital case processing in Georgia after McCleskey : more of the same / Jacqueline Ghislaine Lee, Ray Paternoster, and Michael Rocque

Addressing contradictions with the social psychology of capital juries and racial bias / Jamie L. Flexon

Nothing succeeds like failure : race, decisionmaking, and proportionality in Oklahoma homicide trials, 1973-2010 / David P. Keys and John F. Galliher

Part 3. Death in the Past, Present, and Future. Why do we need the death penalty? / Robert M. Bohm

The death penalty's dirty little secret / Franklin E. Zimring

Race of victim and American capital punishment / Franklin E. Zimring.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781626373563

1626373566

OCLC:

920451477