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Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Miscarriages of Justice and Innocence
Errors in Capital Cases and What Can Be Done About Them, R.M. Bohm
Scrutinizing the Death Penalty:State Death Penalty Study Commissions andTheir Recommendations, J.R. Acker
Themes of Wrongful Executions in the Post-Furman Era, T. Roitberg Harmon
Making It Work:Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted, C. Burnett
A Painless Cocktail? The Lethal Injection Controversy, G. Lee
Death Penalty Opinion, Media Access to Executions, Consensual Executions, and the Relationship between Lynching and the Death Penalty
Assessing Scholarly Opinion of Capital Punishment:The Experts Speak, M.B. Robinson
Police Managers’ Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment, G.F. Vito, G. Suresh, andW.F. Walsh
The United States Can’t Televise an Execution Because It Will Make Condemned Men Feel Bad About the Death Penalty: Issues Raised by the Suit to Make McVeigh’s Execution Public, P. Leighton
“Let’s Do It!”:An Analysis of Consensual Executions,M. Vandiver, D.J. Giacopassi, and K.B. Turner
Some Hypotheses About Capital Punishment and Lynching, H.A. Bedau
Index
Errors in Capital Cases and What Can Be Done About Them, R.M. Bohm
Scrutinizing the Death Penalty:State Death Penalty Study Commissions andTheir Recommendations, J.R. Acker
Themes of Wrongful Executions in the Post-Furman Era, T. Roitberg Harmon
Making It Work:Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted, C. Burnett
A Painless Cocktail? The Lethal Injection Controversy, G. Lee
Death Penalty Opinion, Media Access to Executions, Consensual Executions, and the Relationship between Lynching and the Death Penalty
Assessing Scholarly Opinion of Capital Punishment:The Experts Speak, M.B. Robinson
Police Managers’ Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment, G.F. Vito, G. Suresh, andW.F. Walsh
The United States Can’t Televise an Execution Because It Will Make Condemned Men Feel Bad About the Death Penalty: Issues Raised by the Suit to Make McVeigh’s Execution Public, P. Leighton
“Let’s Do It!”:An Analysis of Consensual Executions,M. Vandiver, D.J. Giacopassi, and K.B. Turner
Some Hypotheses About Capital Punishment and Lynching, H.A. Bedau
Index
Biography
Robert M. Bohm
" … when established authorities like Robert Bohm come out with a new book, death penalty scholars know it belongs on their reading lists."
—Michael L. Radelet, University of Colorado, Boulder, writing in Criminal Justice Review
