The bitter fruit of American justice: international and domestic resistance to the death penalty

Human rights and the erosion of absolute sovereignty -- Extradition : holding the United States to a higher human rights standard -- Honoring treaty commitments : the Vienna Convention on consular relations -- Death penalty myths : science confronts conventional wisdom -- Attitudes toward capital p...

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1. VerfasserIn: Clarke, Alan W. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Whitt, Laurelyn
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Boston, Mass. Northeastern Univ. Press [u.a.] c 2007
In:Jahr: 2007
Bestand in Tübingen:In Tübingen vorhanden.
UB: KB 20 A 2955
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Schlagwörter:
Capital Punishment > United States
Extradition > United States
Human Rights > United States
Justice, Administration of > United States
USA > Todesstrafe > Abschaffung
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Zusammenfassung:Human rights and the erosion of absolute sovereignty -- Extradition : holding the United States to a higher human rights standard -- Honoring treaty commitments : the Vienna Convention on consular relations -- Death penalty myths : science confronts conventional wisdom -- Attitudes toward capital punishment : do facts matter? -- Executing the innocent -- The moral potency of the innocence argument -- The imperfectability of the system
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 242 S
ISBN:1555536824
9781555536824