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The Death Penalty Today (Paperback)
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More than 30 years after the US Supreme Court reinstated the death
penalty, it is still plagued with egregious problems. Issues of
wrongful conviction, inhumane practices, and its efficacy as a
deterrent are hotly debated topics. As of August 2007, two-thirds
of the world's countries have abolished the death penalty. Today,
the US falls alongside Iran, Iraq, Sudan, China, and Pakistan as
countries that continue to believe the death penalty is a necessary
and productive practice.
Compiling articles and essays from leading experts, The Death
Penalty Today presents an in-depth examination of the current
points of debate. The first of two sections focuses on miscarriages
of justice, including errors in conviction and possible remedies.
It reviews 13 death penalty study commissions that reveal potential
causes of wrongful conviction and discusses relevant factors such
as geography, timeframe, and race. The first section also considers
the responsibility of the state for reintegration of the wrongfully
convicted after exoneration, as well as flaws with the ability of
lethal injections to produce a "humane" and "painless" death.
The second section addresses death penalty opinion with a survey
of scholarly experts as well as a survey of mid-level police
managers. It considers the criminalization of reporting,
televising, and photographing executions and the implications to
the first amendment and government accountability. It reveals the
phenomenon of consensual executions as assisted suicide and the
curious dichotomy in logic between the reviled practice of lynching
and its close cousin-the government sanctioned execution.
With lucid arguments supported by verifiable statisticsand expert
opinion, The Death Penalty Today provides a sober look at the death
penalty in the US and begs the question of when, not if, the US
will join the majority of the civilized world in its abolition.
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