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The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence (Hardcover)
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The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence (Hardcover)
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Since 1996, death sentences in America have declined by more than
60 percent, reversing a generation-long trend toward greater
acceptance of capital punishment. In theory, most Americans
continue to support the death penalty. But it is no longer seen as
a theoretical matter. Prosecutors, judges, and juries across the
country have moved in large numbers to give much greater credence
to the possibility of mistakes - mistakes that in this arena are
potentially fatal. The discovery of innocence, documented in this
book through painstaking analyses of media coverage and with newly
developed methods, has led to historic shifts in public opinion and
to a sharp decline in use of the death penalty by juries across the
country. A social cascade, starting with legal clinics and
innocence projects, has snowballed into a national phenomenon that
may spell the end of the death penalty in America.
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