Justice, Mercy, and Caprice: Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland

by Ian O'Donnell

Justice, Mercy, and Caprice is a work of criminal justice history that speaks to the gradual emergence of a more humane Irish state. It is a close examination of the decision to grant clemency to men and women sentenced to death between the end of the civil war in 1923 and the abolition of capital punishment in 1990.
Frequently, the decision to deflect the law from its course was an attempt to introduce a measure of justice to a system where the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198798474
• ISBN13: 9780198798477
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"