Legal Lynching The Death Penalty and America's Future

Name: Legal Lynching The Death Penalty and America's Future
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ISBN: 9781565846852

ISBN-10: 1565846850

ISBN-13: 9781565846852

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jesse Jackson, Bruce Shapiro, Bruce Shapiro

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With polls showing opposition to the death penalty at its highest level in 20 years, this timely book makes a passionate and persuasive case against capital punishment in the USA - the last industrialized democracy to retain the death penalty.

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 10/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 174
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.45" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments


Preface



Introduction: America Faces Its Nightmare



The Death Penalty and the American Past



Myths, Lies, and Deterrence



Sleeping Lawyer Syndrome and Other Tales of Justice for the Poor



A Question of Innocence



Deadly Numbers: Race and the Geography of Execution



False Closure: Victim Rights Versus Vengeance Rights



The Mark of Cain: Faith and the Death Penalty



A Society of Executioners



The Death Penalty and America's Future: Moratorium and Beyond


Afterword: National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2001 (Representative Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.)


Further Reading


Getting Involved


Index