This book redefines the central political and legal issues of the death penalty in the light of the social, political, and moral conditions of the United States.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Road to 1987
The rest of the Western world
The long-term trend that failed
The death penalty and the Eighth Amendment
A punishment in search of a crime
Futures and Consequences
A game of chicken
Only in America: some notes on lethal injection
Life in a country that kills
The path to abolition
Appendix: deterrence and the death penalty
Index.
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