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The Death Penalty Today (Hardcover)
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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 worlds 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
ahumane andpainless 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 statistics and 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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