The Road to Abolition? : : The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States / / ed. by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Austin Sarat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aronson, Jay D.,; Cole, Simon A.,; Denno, Deborah W.,; Fitzpatrick, Peter,; Harcourt, Bernard E.,; Johnson, David T.,; Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V.,; Martschukat, Jürgen,; McCann, Michael,; Ogletree, Charles J.,; Radelet, Michael L.,; Sarat, Austin,; Steiker, Carol S.,; Steiker, Jordan M.,; Wagner-Pacifici, Robin,
• HerausgeberIn: Ogletree Jr., Charles J.,; Sarat, Austin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Assessing the Prospects for Abolition
• 1. The Executioner’s Waning Defenses
• 2. Blinded by Science on the Road to Abolition?
• 3. Abolition in the United States by 2050 On Political Capital and Ordinary Acts of Resistance
• 4. The Beginning of the End?
• 5. Rocked but Still Rolling
• Part II. Debating Lethal Injection
• 6. For Execution Methods Challenges, the Road to Abolition Is Paved with Paradox
• 7. Perfect Execution
• 8. “No Improvement over Electrocution or Even a Bullet”
• Part III. Putting the Death Penalty in Context
• 9. Torture, War, and Capital Punishment
• 10. Making Difference
• About the Contributors
• Index