Title
The Road to Abolition? : The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States / ed. by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Austin Sarat.
ISBN
9780814762547
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814762172.001.0001 doi
Call Number
KF9227.C2 R63 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.660973
Summary
At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in attitudes toward capital punishment, and consider whether or not the death penalty will ever be abolished in America.The interdisciplinary group of experts gathered by Charles J. Ogletree Jr., and Austin Sarat ask and attempt to answer the hard questions that need to be addressed if the death penalty is to be abolished. Will the death penalty end only to be replaced with life in prison without parole? Will life without the possibility of parole become, in essence, the new death penalty? For abolitionists, might that be a pyrrhic victory? The contributors discuss how the death penalty might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the current debate over lethal injection as a case study on why and how the elimination of certain forms of execution might provide a model for the larger abolition of the death penalty.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Series
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice ; ; 5
Available in Other Form
print 9780814762172
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Assessing the Prospects for Abolition
1. The Executioner's Waning Defenses
2. Blinded by Science on the Road to Abolition?
3. Abolition in the United States by 2050 On Political Capital and Ordinary Acts of Resistance
4. The Beginning of the End?
5. Rocked but Still Rolling
Part II. Debating Lethal Injection
6. For Execution Methods Challenges, the Road to Abolition Is Paved with Paradox
7. Perfect Execution
8. "No Improvement over Electrocution or Even a Bullet"
Part III. Putting the Death Penalty in Context
9. Torture, War, and Capital Punishment
10. Making Difference
About the Contributors
Index
