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Death penalty in decline? : the fight against capital punishment in the decades since Furman v. Georgia / edited by Austin Sarat.
Sarat, Austin, editor.
2024
HV8699.U5 D385 2024 (Map It)
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Title
Death penalty in decline? : the fight against capital punishment in the decades since Furman v. Georgia / edited by Austin Sarat.
Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2024
Copyright
©2024
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HV8699.U5 D385 2024
ISBN
9781439924815 hardcover
1439924813 hardcover
9781439924822 paperback
1439924821 paperback
9781439924839 electronic book
Description
236 pages ; 24 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
40032374128
System Control No.
20462825
(OCoLC)1421931187
Summary
"This volume presents essays evaluating the similarities and differences between the legal, political, ethical, and practical landscapes confronted by the death penalty abolition movement at the time of the Furman v. Georgia decision and subsequent reversal and those confronted by the same movement today"-- Provided by the publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online version: Death penalty in decline? Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2024 9781439924839 (OCoLC)1422091601
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Sarat, Austin, editor.
Introduction: The death penalty in decline and today's abolitionist politics / Austin Sarat
Part I: Looking back at Furman v. Georgia
What-ifs and missed opportunities : the U.S. Supreme Court, death sentences and executions, and the fiftieth anniversary of Furman v. Georgia / John D. Bessler
What was "unusual" in Furman? / Linda Ross Meyer
The foreignness of Furman / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker
Part II: On the road to abolition?
Catholicism and the ongoing struggle to end the death penalty, from Furman v. Georgia to the present / Sara Mayeux
Abolition then and now : the role of Furman's failure in today's abolition success / Corinna Barrett Lain
When the killing law stops killing : thoughts about Furman / James R. Martel.

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