Race and the Death Penalty : : The Legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp / / ed. by R.J. Maratea, David P. Keys.
In what has been called the Dred Scott decision of our times, the US Supreme Court found in McCleskey v. Kemp that evidence of overwhelming racial disparities in the capital punishment process could not be admitted in individual capital cases—in effect institutionalizing a racially unequal system of...
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Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Racial Bias and Capital Punishment
- Part 1 The Crisis of Race and Capital Punishment
- 2 McCleskey v. Kemp and the Reaffirmation of Separate but Equal
- 3 Revisiting McCleskey v. Kemp: A Failure of Sociological Imagination?
- 4 McCleskey and the Lingering Problem of “Race”
- Part 2 Race, Class, and Capital Sentencing
- 5 Overcoming Moral Peril: How Empirical Research Can Affect Death Penalty Debates
- 6 Capital Sentencing and Structural Racism: The Source of Bias
- 7 Capital Case Processing in Georgia After McCleskey: More of the Same
- 8 Addressing Contradictions with the Social Psychology of Capital Juries and Racial Bias
- 9 Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Race, Decisionmaking, and Proportionality in Oklahoma Homicide Trials, 1973–2010
- Part 3 Death in the Past, Present, and Future
- 10 Why Do We Need the Death Penalty?
- 11 The Death Penalty’s Dirty Little Secret
- 12 Race of Victim and American Capital Punishment
- Bibliography
- The Contributors
- Index
- About the Book