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Against capital punishment : the anti-death penalty movement in America, 1972-1994

Author: Herbert H Haines
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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While most western democracies have renounced the death penalty, capital punishment enjoys vast and growing support in the United States. A significant and vocal minority, however, continues to oppose it. Against Capital Punishment is the first full account of anti-death penalty activism in America during the years since the ten-year moratorium on executions ended. Building on in-depth interviews with movement
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Herbert H Haines
ISBN: 0195088387 9780195088380
OCLC Number: 32589347
Description: xii, 253 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The fall and rise of capital punishment: 1965-1976 --
The return of the executioner: 1976-1982 --
The reemergence of political abolitionism --
Framing disputes in the movement against capital punishment --
Abolitionism at the crossroads --
Reframing capital punishment: pragmatic abolitionism.
Responsibility: Herbert H. Haines.
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While most western democracies have renounced the death penalty, capital punishment enjoys vast and growing support in the United States. A significant and vocal minority, however, continues to oppose it. Against Capital Punishment is the first full account of anti-death penalty activism in America during the years since the ten-year moratorium on executions ended. Building on in-depth interviews with movement leaders and the records of key abolitionist organizations, this work traces the struggle against the pro-death penalty backlash that has steadily gained momentum since the 1970s. It reviews the conservative turn in the courts which, over the last two decades, has forced death penalty opponents to rely less on the litigation strategies that once served them well. It describes their efforts to mount a broad-based educational and political assault on what they see as the most cruel, racist, ineffective, and expensive manifestation of a criminal justice system gone wrong.

Despite the efforts of death-penalty opponents, executions in the United States are on the increase. Against Capital Punishment diagnoses the reasons for the failure to mobilize widespread opposition to executions, and assesses the prospects for opposition to capital punishment in the future of the United States.

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