The Contradictions of American capital punishment / Franklin E. Zimring.
2003
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Title
The Contradictions of American capital punishment / Franklin E. Zimring.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Call Number
KF9227.C2 Z45 2003
ISBN
0195152360
Description
x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50334054
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-249) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
I
Divergent Trends
1
1
The Peculiar Present of American Capital Punishment
3
2
More Than a Trend: Abolition in the Developed Nations
16
3
The Symbolic Transformation of American Capital Punishment
42
II
Explaining the American Difference
65
4
Federalism and Its Discontents
67
5
The Vigilante Tradition and Modern Executions
89
6
The Consequences of Contradictory Values
119
III
Capital Punishment in the American Future
141
7
The No-Win 1990s
143
8
The Beginning of the End
179
App. A
Statistical Materials on Lynchings and Executions
207
App. B
Reported Frequencies of National Death Penalty Policy, 1980 to 2001
213
App. C
Death Row and Execution Statistics
227
App. D
New Survey Analysis Materials
229
App. E
Justified Killings by Citizens and Police, by State
237
App. F
Review of Death Penalty Exoneration Data from the Death Penalty Information Center
241
References
243
Index
251