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End of Its Rope : How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice / Brandon L. Garrett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (310 p.) : 5 halftones, 14 graphs, 8 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674981959
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.660973 23
LOC classification:
  • KF9227.C2 G37 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. An Awakening -- 2. Inevitability of Innocence -- 3. Mercy vs. Justice -- 4. The Great American Death Penalty Decline -- 5. The Defense-Lawyering Effect -- 6. Murder Insurance -- 7. The Other Death Penalty -- 8. The Execution Decline -- 9. End Game -- 10. The Triumph of Mercy -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Summary: Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674981959

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. An Awakening -- 2. Inevitability of Innocence -- 3. Mercy vs. Justice -- 4. The Great American Death Penalty Decline -- 5. The Defense-Lawyering Effect -- 6. Murder Insurance -- 7. The Other Death Penalty -- 8. The Execution Decline -- 9. End Game -- 10. The Triumph of Mercy -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index

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Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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