The road to abolition?
Subtitle: the future of capital punishment in the United States
By: edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat.
Contributors: Ogletree, Charles J.; Sarat, Austin.
Series: The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814762172; 9780814762189
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : toward and beyond the abolition of capital punishment / Charles Ogletree and Austin Sarat. Pt. I. Assessing the prospects for abolition. The executioner's waning defenses : the eroding defense of the executioner / Michael L. Radelet; title: Blinded by science on the road to abolition? / Simon A. Cole and Jay D. Aronson; title: Abolition in the U.S.A. by 2050 : on political capital and ordinary acts of resistance / Bernard E. Harcourt; title: The beginning of the end? / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker; title: Rocked but still rolling : the enduring institution of capital punishment in historical and comparative perspective / Michael McCann and David T. Johnson; title: Pt. II. For execution methods challenges, the road to abolition is paved with paradox. For execution methods challenges, the road to abolition is paved with paradox / Deborah W. Denno; title: Perfect execution : abolitionism and the paradox of lethal injection / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn; title: No improvement over electrocution or even a bullet? : lethal injection and the meaning of speed and reliability in the modern execution process / Jürgen Martschukat; title: Pt. III. Putting the death penalty in context. Torture, war, and capital punishment : linkages and missed connections / Robin Wagner-Pacifici; title: Making difference : modernity and the political dimensions of death / Peter Fitzpatrick.