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Legal lynching : the death penalty and America's future

Title
  1. Legal lynching : the death penalty and America's future / Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., Bruce Shapiro.
Published by
  1. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2001.
Author
  1. Jackson, Jesse, 1941-

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Additional authors
  1. Jackson, Jesse, Jr., 1965-
  2. Shapiro, Bruce.
Description
  1. xv, 174 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Argues that the death penalty is morally wrong, an ineffective deterrent, and an instrument of a justice system exemplified by systematic legal error and widespread racial bias.
Subject
  1. Capital punishment > United States
  2. Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects
  3. Discrimination in capital punishment > United States
  4. Peine de mort > États-Unis
  5. Discrimination dans l'application de la peine de mort > États-Unis
  6. Capital punishment
  7. Discrimination in capital punishment
  8. Todesstrafe
  9. United States
  10. USA
Contents
  1. Acknowledgments -- Preface / Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. -- Introduction : America faces its nightmare -- Death penalty and the American past -- Myths, lies, and deterrence -- Sleeping lawyer syndrome and other tales of justice for the poor -- Question of innocence -- Deadly numbers : race and the geography of execution -- False closure : victim rights versus vengeance rights -- Mark of Cain : faith and the death penalty -- Society of executioners -- Death penalty and America's future : moratorium and beyond -- Afterword : National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2001 (Representative Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.).
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.