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

by Brandon L Garrett and Brandon L. Garrett

Book Overview

It isn't enough to celebrate the death penalty's demise. We must learn from it.

When Henry McCollum was condemned to death in 1984 in rural North Carolina, death sentences were commonplace. In 2014, DNA tests set McCollum free. By then, death sentences were as rare as lethal lightning strikes. To most observers this national trend came as a surprise. What changed? Brandon Garrett hand-collected and analyzed national data, looking for causes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674970993
• ISBN13: 9780674970991
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.2"