Death Penalty in Decline? - The Fight Against Capital Punishment in Decades Since Furman V.

"This volume presents essays evaluating the similarities and differences between the legal, political, ethical, and practical landscapes confronted by the death penalty abolition movement at the time of the Furman v. Georgia decision and subsequent reversal and those confronted by the same movement today"--

About the author

Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author or editor of several books including Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution; The Death Penalty on the Ballot: American Democracy and the Fate of Capital Punishment; Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty; and Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution.

Product details

• Authors: Austin (EDT) Sarat
• Assisted by: Austin Sarat (Editor)
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781439924822
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-2482-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education