Mercy on Trial : : What It Means to Stop an Execution / / Austin Sarat.
On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty"--commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state's death row. Critics demonized Ryan...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Mercy, Clemency, and Capital Punishment The Illinois Story
- Chapter 2. Capital Clemency in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 3. The Jurisprudence of Clemency
- Chapter 4. Governing Clemency From Redemption to Retribution
- Chapter 5. Clemency without Mercy
- Chapter 6. Conclusion
- Appendix A. George Ryan:
- Appendix B. Capital Clemency, 1900-2004
- Appendix C. Chronology of Capital Clemency, 1900-2004
- Notes
- Index