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The Road to Abolition? - The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States (Hardcover)
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The Road to Abolition? - The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice
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At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst
of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There
has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced
to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and
the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise.
The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in
attitudes toward capital punishment, and consider whether or not
the death penalty will ever be abolished in America. The
interdisciplinary group of experts gathered by Charles J. Ogletree
Jr., and Austin Sarat ask and attempt to answer the hard questions
that need to be addressed if the death penalty is to be abolished.
Will the death penalty end only to be replaced with life in prison
without parole? Will life without the possibility of parole become,
in essence, the new death penalty? For abolitionists, might that be
a pyrrhic victory? The contributors discuss how the death penalty
might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the current debate
over lethal injection as a case study on why and how the
elimination of certain forms of execution might provide a model for
the larger abolition of the death penalty.
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