Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-199) and index.
Contents:
Racial bias and capital punishment / Richard C. Dieter -- Part 1. The crisis of race and capital punishment -- McCleskey v. Kemp and the reaffirmation of separate but equal / David P. Keys and R.J. Maratea -- Revisiting McCleskey v. Kemp : a failure of sociological imagination? / Tony G. Poveda -- McCleskey and the lingering problem of "race" / Ross Kleinstuber -- Part 2. Race, class, and capital sentencing -- Overcoming moral peril : how empirical research can affect death penalty debates / R.J. Maratea -- Capital sentencing and structural racism : the source of bias / Gennaro F. Vito and George E. Higgins -- Capital case processing in Georgia after McCleskey : more of the same / Jacqueline Ghislaine Lee, Ray Paternoster, and Michael Rocque -- Addressing contradictions with the social psychology of capital juries and racial bias / Jamie L. Flexon -- Nothing succeeds like failure : race, decisionmaking, and proportionality in Oklahoma homicide trials, 1973-2010 / David P. Keys and John F. Galliher -- Part 3. Death in the past, present, and future -- Why do we need the death penalty? / Robert M. Bohm -- The death penalty's dirty little secret / Franklin E. Zimring -- Race of victim and American capital punishment / Franklin E. Zimring.
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