America's experiment with capital punishment : reflections on the past, present, and future of the ultimate penal sanction / edited by James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, Charles S. Lanier.
| Other author | Acker, James R., 1951- |
| Other author | Bohm, Robert M. |
| Other author | Lanier, Charles S., 1950- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Third edition. |
| Publication | Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2014] |
| Description | xiii, 759 pages ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: America's experiment with capital punishment / James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier -- Capital punishment: public opinion, law, and politics -- Capital punishment law and practices: history, trends, and developments / John D. Bessler -- American death penalty opinion: past, present, and future / Robert M. Bohm -- Judicial developments in capital punishment law / Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker -- Beyond human ability? The rise and fall of death penalty legislation / James R. Acker and Charles S. Lanier -- Politics of capital punishment: the sacrifice of fairness for executions / Stephen B. Bright -- The transformative influence of international law and practice on the death penalty in the United States / Richard J.Wilson -- The justice and utility of the capital sanction -- Roots / Robert Blecker -- Justice, deterrence, and the death penalty / Ernest van den Haag -- Is capital punishment an effective deterrent for murder? An examination of social science research / Ruth D. Peterson and William C. Bailey -- Is capital punishment an effective deterrent for murder? an updated review of research and theory / Robert Apel, Samuel E. DeWitt, & Rose Bellandi -- Future dangerousness / Mark D. Cunningham & Jonathan R. Sorensen -- Women and children first / Victor L. Streib -- Intellectual disability, mental illness and the death penalty / Christopher Slobogin -- The execution of the innocent / Michael L. Radelet and Hugo Adam Bedau -- Administration of the death penalty -- The capital defense attorney / Andrea D. Lyon -- Stacking the deck for guilt and death: the failure of death qualification to ensure impartiality / Marla Sandys, Sara M. Walsh, Heather Pruss, & Dylan Cunningham -- The life or death sentencing decision: it's at odds with constitutional standards; is it beyond human ability? / William J. Bowers, et. al. -- Mitigation and the study of lives: on the roots of violent criminality and the nature of capital justice / Craig Haney -- Race discrimination and the death penalty: an empirical and legal overview / Catherine M. Grosso, Barbara O'Brien, Abijah Taylor, & George Woodworth -- Federal habeas corpus in capital cases / Eric M. Freedman -- The issue of costs in the death penalty debate / Richard C. Dieter -- Terminal stages of the penalty of death -- The role of health and mental health professionals in the capital punishment process / Steven K. Erickson & Charles Patrick Ewing -- The impact of the death penalty on the families of homicide victims and of condemned prisoners / Margaret Vandiver -- Life under sentence of death: historical and contemporary perspectives / Robert Johnson & Harmony Davies -- The evolving role of clemency in capital cases / Daniel T. Kobil -- America's experiment with execution methods / Deborah W. Denno. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 1611633850 |
| ISBN | 9781611633856 |