The road to abolition? : the future of capital punishment in the United States

• Other Authors: Ogletree, Charles J., Sarat, Austin
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2009.
• Series: Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice.
• Subjects: trest smrti > Spojené státy americké; capital punishment > United States; elektronické knihy; případové studie; sborníky; electronic books; case studies; papers of several authors

Contains scholarly essays on the possibility that capital punishment might be abolished in the United States in the twenty-first century, discussing the decline in the number of people being sentenced to death, and exploring the idea that life without parole will replace the death penalty in the Uni...