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Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
Carol Steiker
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Description for Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
Hardback. Refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the U.S. has attempted to reform and rationalize capital punishment through federal constitutional law. While execution chambers remain active in several states, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue that the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFMC; LAZ; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 244 x 33. Weight in Grams: 710.
Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the face of widespread abolition of the death penalty around the world, provisions for capital punishment that had long fallen under the purview of the states were challenged in federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in ... Read more
Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the face of widespread abolition of the death penalty around the world, provisions for capital punishment that had long fallen under the purview of the states were challenged in federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
709g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674737426
SKU
V9780674737426
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About Carol Steiker
Carol S. Steiker is Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Jordan M. Steiker is Judge Robert M. Parker Endowed Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Reviews for Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
This is the most important book about the death penalty for a generation and, likely, ever. Anyone who cares about the state of justice in America should read this book.
Lincoln Caplan, journalist and Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker (sister and brother) have written a revealing book about the history of the ... Read more
Lincoln Caplan, journalist and Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker (sister and brother) have written a revealing book about the history of the ... Read more