Beyond Repair? : America's Death Penalty

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 : Second Thoughts: Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century -- 2 : Capital Punishment, Federal Courts, and the Writ of Habeas Corpus -- 3 : ‘‘Until I Can Be Sure’’: How the Threat of Executing the Innocent Has Tr...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 : Second Thoughts: Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century -- 2 : Capital Punishment, Federal Courts, and the Writ of Habeas Corpus -- 3 : ‘‘Until I Can Be Sure’’: How the Threat of Executing the Innocent Has Transformed the Death Penalty Debate -- 4 : Race and Capital Punishment -- 5 : Lessons from the Capital Jury Project -- 6 : International Law and the Abolition of the Death Penalty -- Postscript: The Peculiar Present of American Capital Punishment -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung