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Is the death penalty dying? : European and American perspectives /
"Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from th...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: transatlantic perspectives on capital punishment: national identity, the death penalty, and the prospects for abolition / Austin Sarat and Jürgen Martschukat
- Part I. What Is a Penalty of Death: Capital Punishment in Context: 1. The green, green grass of home: capital punishment and the penal system from a long-term perspective / Pieter Spierenburg; 2. Did anyone die here?: legal personalities, the supermax, and the politics of abolition / Colin Dayan; 3. Capital punishment as homeowners insurance: the rise of the homeowner citizen and the fate of ultimate sanctions in both Europe and the United States / Jonathan Simon
- Part II. On the Meaning of Death and Pain in Europe and the United States: Viewing, Witnessing, Understanding: 4. The witnessing of judgment: between error, mercy, and vindictiveness / Evi Girling; 5. Unframing the death penalty: transatlantic discourse on the possibility of abolition and the execution of Saddam Hussein / Kathryn A. Heard; 6. Executions and the debate about abolition in France and in the United States / Simon Grivet
- Part III. Abolitionist Discourses, Abolitionist Strategies, Abolitionist Dilemmas: Transatlantic Perspectives: 7. Civilized rebels: death-penalty abolition in Europe as cause, mark of distinction, and political strategy / Andrew Hammel; 8. The death of dignity / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn; 9. Sovereignty and the unnecessary penalty of death: European and United States perspectives / Jon Yorke; 10. European policy on the death penalty / Agata Fijalkowski; 11. The long shadow of the death penalty: mass incarceration, capital punishment, and penal policy in the United States / Marie Gottschalk.