Search Results - "death penalty"

Is the death penalty dying?

Table of Contents: “…Howley and Molly Appel -- The heart has its reasons: examining the strange persistence of the American death penalty / Susan A. Bandes -- Rule of law abolitionism / Benjamin S. …”
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Euthanasia, Abortion, Death Penalty and Religion - The Right to Life and its Limitations International Empirical Research /

Table of Contents: “…A study of the attitude of Christian, Muslim and Hindu students in India concerning death penalty, euthanasia and abortion (Francis-Vincent Anthony) -- Chapter 3. …”
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Studies in law, politics, and society.

Table of Contents: “…Rights discourse and the mobilization of bias : exploring the institutional dynamics of the same-sex marriage debates in America / Joseph Mello -- Unearthing a network of resistance : law and the anti-strip mining movement in central Appalachia / Robert Todd Perdue, Christopher McCarty -- Racist localisms and the enduring cultural life of America's death penalty : lessons from Maricopa County, Arizona / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Paul Kaplan, Jamie Longazel -- Towards justice : neuroscience and affirmative defenses at the ICC / Adam B. …”
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Studies in law, politics, and society.

Table of Contents: “…It's not about race, it's about rights / Ann Sullivan, Valmaine Toki -- Legislative abolition of the death penalty : a qualitative analysis / Kevin H. Wozniak -- The most restrictive alternative : a litigation history of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, 1960-2006 / Keramet Ann Reiter -- Return of the wrongly convicted : the test for post-conviction executive references in Australia / David Caruso -- Measuring legal formalism : reading hard cases with soft frames / Michal Alberstein -- On law's promise : thinking about how we think about law's limits / Nicky Priaulx.…”
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Studies in law, politics and society.

Table of Contents: “…Capital punishment and elite politics : dissensus and the death penalty in America / Judith Randle -- Welfare, democracy, and the reflexive legitimacy of the law / Kevin Olson -- Social class, drugs, gender and the limitations of the law : contrasting the elite prostitute with the street prostitute / Maureen A. …”
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Punishment, politics and culture

Table of Contents: “…Hitched to the post : prison labor, choice, and citizenship / Keally McBride -- Perhaps all pain is punishment : community corrections and the hyperghetto / William Lyons -- How science matters : discourse on deterrence in a death penalty debate / Theodore Sasson. Representing punishment in literature and popular culture. …”
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The organizational response to persons with mental illness involved with the criminal justice system

Table of Contents: “…Breda -- Benefits and risk of using "diminished capacity" mitigation in death penalty proceedings / Beth Bjerregaard ... [et al.] -- pt. 4. …”
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