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Deadly Justice - A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty (Hardcover)
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Deadly Justice - A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty (Hardcover)
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In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the
death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain
specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the
'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty
just four years before in the Furman decision because it found that
the penalty had been applied in a capricious and arbitrary manner.
The 1976 decision ushered in the 'modern' period of the US death
penalty, setting the country on a course to execute over 1,400
inmates in the ensuing years, with over 8,000 individuals currently
sentenced to die. Now, forty years after the decision, the eminent
political scientist Frank Baumgartner along with a team of younger
scholars (Marty Davidson, Kaneesha Johnson, Arvind Krishnamurthy,
and Colin Wilson) have collaborated to assess the empirical record
and provide a definitive account of how the death penalty has been
implemented. Each chapter addresses a precise empirical question
and provides evidence, not opinion, about whether how the modern
death penalty has functioned. They decided to write the book after
Justice Breyer issued a dissent in a 2015 death penalty case in
which he asked for a full briefing on the constitutionality of the
death penalty. In particular, they assess the extent to which the
modern death penalty has met the aspirations of Gregg or continues
to suffer from the flaws that caused its rejection in Furman. To
answer this question, they provide the most comprehensive
statistical account yet of the workings of the capital punishment
system. Authoritative and pithy, the book is intended for both
students in a wide variety of fields, researchers studying the
topic, and-not least-the Supreme Court itself.
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