America's Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890896518 ISBN 13: 9780890896518

Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Authored by some of the leading death penalty scholars in the country, this book critically analyzes changes in capital punishment and its administration over the last quarter century and explores a wide variety of issues confronting the present and future of the death penalty in America. This book offers discussions on a host of fundamental questions of law, social policy, and morality about capital punishment. Containing the work of 25 contributors, this volume is a collection of 21 chapters addressing capital punishment public opinion, law and politics, the justice of the death penalty, the utility of the capital sanction, jury decision-making, defense counsel, race discrimination, mitigation theory, cost, habeas corpus, victims, the role of mental health professionals, death row, executive clemency, executions, and other issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890896518
• ISBN 13: 9780890896518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 586
• Editor: Acker James R., Bohm Robert M., Lanier Charles S.