Courting Death : : The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment / / Carol S. Steiker.
Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 line illustration |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Before Constitutional Regulation
- 2. The Supreme Court Steps In
- 3. The Invisibility of Race in the Constitutional Revolution
- 4. Between the Supreme Court and the States
- 5. The Failures of Regulation
- 6. An Unsustainable System?
- 7. Recurring Patterns in Constitutional Regulation
- 8. The Future of the American Death Penalty
- 9. Life after Death
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index