Introduction : toward and beyond the abolition of capital punishment -- Assessing the prospects for abolition -- The executioner's waning defenses -- Blinded by science on the road to abolition? -- Abolition in the United States by 2050 : on political capital and ordinary acts of resistance -- The beginning of the end? -- Rocked but still rolling : the enduring institution of capital punishment in historical and comparative perspective -- Debating lethal injection -- For execution methods challenges, the road to abolition is paved with paradox -- Perfect execution : abolitionism and the paradox of lethal injection -- "No improvement over electrocution or even a bullet" : lethal injection and the meaning of speed and reliability in the modern execution process -- Putting the death penalty in context -- Torture, war, and capital punishment : linkages and missed connections -- Making difference : modernity and the political formations of death.
Series:
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice
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