The death penalty as state crime: who can kill?

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures human beings, but is also aware of its deep flaws and...

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1. Verfasser: Finley, Laura L. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024
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Zusammenfassung:This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures human beings, but is also aware of its deep flaws and chooses not to address them.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The State That Kills -- 1. Who Decides? Arbitrariness and the Decision to Seek Capital Charges -- 2. Who Represents? Inadequate Counsel in Death Penalty Cases -- 3. Who Dies? The Death Penalty and Bias -- 4. Who Dies, Part II?: The Death Penalty, Mental Health, and Mental Illness -- 5. Who Did It? Innocence, Exonerations, and the Death Penalty -- 6. Who Survives? Conditions on Death Row -- 7. Who Kills and How? Execution Methods, Protocols, and Botched Executions -- Conclusion: Abolishing the State Crime of the Death Penalty -- Index.
Beschreibung:xiii, 224 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781032470023
9781032470016