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Beyond repair? : America's death penalty / edited by Stephen P. Garvey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Constitutional conflicts.
- Constitutional conflicts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays offer a new challenge to the death penalty's legitimacy, in light of new empirical research and case studies, and against the backdrop of international law and recent changes in U.S. domestic law.
- Contents:
- Second thoughts: Americans' views on the death penalty at the turn of the century / Samuel R. Gross, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
- Capital punishment, federal courts, and the writ of habeas corpus / Larry W. Yackle
- "Until I can be sure" : how the threat of executing the innocent has transformed the death penalty debate / Ken Armstrong, Steve Mills
- Race and capital punishment / Sheri Lynn Johnson
- Lessons from the capital jury project / John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey
- International law and the abolition of the death penalty / William A. Schabas
- Postscript: the peculiar present of American capital punishment / Franklin E. Zimring.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06420-0
- 9786613064202
- 0-8223-8403-5
- OCLC:
- 191222143
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