End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice

Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishme...

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Main Author: Garrett, Brandon L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2018]
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
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DE-860
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Summary:Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (310 pages) 5 halftones, 14 graphs, 8 tables
ISBN:9780674981959
DOI:10.4159/9780674981959