Imprisoned by the past: Warren McCleskey and the American death penalty
A death in Dixie -- The trial of Warren McCleskey -- Offie Evans and McCleskey v. Zant -- The first limits : the early American death penalty through the 1850s -- Wars and death penalty abolition : the Civil War World War II -- A time of change : American society and the death penalty 1950s through...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York
Oxford University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
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| Summary: | A death in Dixie -- The trial of Warren McCleskey -- Offie Evans and McCleskey v. Zant -- The first limits : the early American death penalty through the 1850s -- Wars and death penalty abolition : the Civil War World War II -- A time of change : American society and the death penalty 1950s through the 1960s -- Into the courthouse : the 1970s abolition strategy -- A new era : a new U.S. death penalty returns in the late 1970s -- Starting over : executions resume in the 1970s and 1980s -- Lynching and race in America -- Race and the courts -- Warren McCleskey and the Baldus study -- The Supreme Court and McCleskey v. Kemp -- Mitigation and reform -- Warren McCleskey and the electric chair -- Other American execution methods -- The unstoppable death penalty after McCleskey into the early 1990s -- New abolitionist voices in the 1990s -- Innocence and the American death penalty -- A moratorium movement emerges in the 1990s -- The early twenty-first century death penalty in the courts -- The early twenty-first century death penalty in U.S. politics -- Escaping from imprisonment of the past |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 431 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780199967933 |