Life Without Parole: America's New Death Penalty?

by Austin Sarat, Ronald Roberts, Julian Agyeman

Book Overview

Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as "the new death penalty." Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together original work by prominent scholars in an effort to better understand the growth of life without parole and its social, cultural, political, and legal meanings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814762484
• ISBN13: 9780814762486
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"