Descript |
241 p. |
Contents |
Contents: Introduction -- The death penalty in America, yesterday and today -- American populism: witnesses to an execution -- Convicting and executing the innocent -- Executive clemency in capital cases -- The choice between imprisonment and death -- A moral reading of the Eighth Amendment -- Human dignity and the Eighth Amendment -- Using moral principles to argue about the death penalty -- Abolishing the death penalty even for the worst murderers -- Epilogue. |
ISBN |
155553595X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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