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Death justice : Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and the contradictions of the death penalty / Kenneth W. Miller and David Niven.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Kenneth W. (Kenneth Wayne)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Rehnquist, William H., 1924-2005.
- Rehnquist, William H.
- Scalia, Antonin.
- Thomas, Clarence, 1948-.
- Thomas, Clarence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Justice Scalia has warned of the danger of fallacies that pass for truth simply because they are frequently repeated. Death Justice argues that one fallacy that passes for truth is the widely held notion that Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas applied a fixed standard--itself based on a fixed meaning of the Constitution--to death penalty cases. In defiance of their judicial rhetoric, their conclusions simply defy their, or any, conception of consistency. And without a logical, consistent foundation, their findings on the death penalty come to resemble little more than personal political
- Contents:
- Consistency is the very foundation of the rule of law
- The death penalty in american law and politics
- Speaking for the public in death penalty decisions
- Defending the states in death penalty decisions
- The wisdom of jurors in death penalty decisions
- The legal and political implications
- The culture battle
- Death penalty policy: breaking the mold.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59332-545-2
- OCLC:
- 732955775
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