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No Winners Here Tonight - Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States (Paperback)
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No Winners Here Tonight - Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States (Paperback)
Series: Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest
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Loot Price R588
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Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the
death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in
America for hundreds of years, yet the justification for carrying
out the ultimate sentence is a continuing source of controversy.
"No Winners Here Tonight "explores the history of the death penalty
and the question of its fairness through the experience of a single
state, Ohio, which, despite its moderate midwestern values, has
long had one of the country's most active death chambers.
In 1958, just four states accounted for half of the forty-eight
executions carried out nationwide, each with six: California,
Georgia, Ohio, and Texas. By the first decade of the new century,
Ohio was second only to Texas in the number of people put to death
each year. "No Winners Here Tonight" looks at this trend and
determines that capital punishment has been carried out in an
uneven fashion from its earliest days, with outcomes based not on
blind justice but on the color of a person's skin, the whim of a
local prosecutor, or the biases of the jury pool in the county in
which a crime was committed.
Andrew Welsh-Huggins's work is the only comprehensive study of the
history of the death penalty in Ohio. His analysis concludes that
the current law, crafted by lawmakers to punish the worst of the
state's killers, doesn't come close to its intended purpose and
instead varies widely in its implementation. Welsh-Huggins takes on
this controversial topic evenhandedly and with respect for the
humanity of the accused and the victim alike. This exploration of
the law of capital punishment and its application will appeal to
students of criminal justice as well as those with an interest in
law and public policy.
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