Is the Death Penalty Dying?: European and American Perspectives

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Summary

Examining the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to today.

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Introduction: transatlantic perspectives on capital punishment: national identity, the death penalty, and the prospects for abolition
What Is a Penalty of Death: Capital Punishment in Context
The green, green grass of home: capital punishment and the penal system from a long-term perspective
Did anyone die here? Legal personalities, the supermax and the politics of abolition
Capital punishment as homeowners insurance: the rise of the homeowner citizen and the fate of ultimate sanctions in both Europe and the United States
On the Meaning of Death and Pain in Europe and the United States: Viewing, Witnessing, Understanding
The witnessing of judgment: between error, mercy, and vindictiveness
Unframing the death penalty: transatlantic discourse on the possibility of abolition and the execution of Saddam Hussein
Executions and the debate about abolition in France and in the U.S.
Abolitionist Discourses/Abolitionist Strategies/Abolitionist Dilemmas: Transatlantic Perspectives
Civilized rebels: death penalty abolition in Europe as cause, mark of distinction, and political strategy
The death of dignity
Sovereignty and the unnecessary penalty of death: European and United States perspectives
European policy on the death penalty
In the shadow of death: capital punishment, mass incarceration, and penal policy in the United States
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