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| Title | : | From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814740227 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-17 |
| Language | : | English |
This is a must read for anyone who cares about fairness in application of the death penalty and respect for the rule of law in our modern society.”-Senator Edward M. The professors astutely note that the death penalty is often used as a club to keep poor and desperate minorities in line in the larger white society.”-Black Issues Book Review“Expertly dissects the racist underpinnings of capital punishment while pushing some intellectual boundaries.”-International Socialist Review“An elegant compendium of essays written by sociologists, historians, criminologists, and lawyers. The essays starkly reveal
Five Stars Dr. Viteazu Great!. FR said Engaging throughout; relevant without a doubt.. Eight powerful essays and voices assembled to explain the "how" and the "why" of race, the death penalty, and its aberrant intertwined history in the development of the U.S. Engaging throughout; relevant without a doubt. It is a must buy for those who are serious about understanding our criminal justice system.
Previous collaborations for NYU Press with Charles J. is Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. Previous collaborations for NYU Press with Austin Sarat include From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (2006), When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarraiges of Justice
Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. In its probing examination of how and why the connection between race and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American history, this book forces us to consider how the death penalty gives meaning to race as well as why the racialization of the death penalty is uniquely American.. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American p
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