The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States

by Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

Book Overview

At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have become common, and the number of states abolishing the death penalty is on the rise. The essays featured in The Road to Abolition? track this shift in attitudes toward capital punishment, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814762182
• ISBN13: 9780814762189
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.0"