Beyond Repair?: America's Death Penalty

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Beyond Repair?

America's Death Penalty

Edited by: Stephen P. Garvey , Neal Devins and Mark A. Graber
With contributions by: Samuel R. Gross and Phoebe C. Ellsworth

In the series Constitutional conflicts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384038

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Contents

About this book

Essays offer a new challenge to the death penalty's legitimacy, in light of new empirical research and case studies, and against the backdrop of international law and recent changes in U.S. domestic law.

Author / Editor information

Stephen P. Garvey is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

Reviews

“Important and timely, Beyond Repair? presents disturbing findings about the legal system’s inability to administer the death penalty fairly. Especially noteworthy for the new empirical data it brings to bear, this book presents a necessary—and unsettling—look at capital punishment in America today.”—Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union and Professor of Law, New York Law School

“In these essays some of our most knowledgeable students of capital punishment take a hard, no-nonsense look at how it actually operates and what drives America’s passionate refusal either to come to peace with the death penalty or give it up. Vital reading for whoever would understand why it can function only fitfully, peevishly, and perversely.”—Anthony G. Amsterdam, New York University School of Law

“This collection is an indispensable guide to the new learning on the death penalty, and to the reasons why capital punishment has suddenly become one of the nation's most pressing issues of public policy and debate.”—James S. Liebman, Columbia Law School

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Stephen P. Garvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 : Second Thoughts: Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century Samuel R. Gross and Phoebe C. Ellsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2 : Capital Punishment, Federal Courts, and the Writ of Habeas Corpus Larry W. Yackle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
3 : ‘‘Until I Can Be Sure’’: How the Threat of Executing the Innocent Has Transformed the Death Penalty Debate Ken Armstrong and Steve Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
4 : Race and Capital Punishment Sheri Lynn Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
5 : Lessons from the Capital Jury Project John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg and Stephen P. Garvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
6 : International Law and the Abolition of the Death Penalty William A. Schabas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Postscript: The Peculiar Present of American Capital Punishment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 256

eBook

Published: November 22, 2002
ISBN: 9780822384038