End of Its Rope : : How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice / / Brandon L. Garrett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Garrett, Brandon L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.) :; 5 halftones, 14 graphs, 8 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. An Awakening --; 2. Inevitability of Innocence --; 3. Mercy vs. Justice --; 4. The Great American Death Penalty Decline --; 5. The Defense-Lawyering Effect --; 6. Murder Insurance --; 7. The Other Death Penalty --; 8. The Execution Decline --; 9. End Game --; 10. The Triumph of Mercy --; Appendix --; Notes --; Acknowledgements --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674981959; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674981959
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Brandon L. Garrett.

Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.