{"product_id":"the-slow-death-of-the-death-penalty-9781479819645","title":"The Slow Death of the Death Penalty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy the death penalty is in decline across the United States\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-two states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty-eight states that still have the death penalty, eight have not had an execution in over a decade. And public support for the death penalty has declined from 80% of the surveyed population in the early 1990s to approximately 50% today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the death penalty slowly withers away, Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, and Mary Welek Atwell bring together a number of distinguished death-penalty scholars, activists, and attorneys to take an accounting of the damage inflicted by the machinery of death. Contributors to the book point to a range of different pathologies which have caused politicians and voters to turn against capital punishment, from unacceptable rates of false convictions and racially motivated prosecutions, to a clemency process poisoned by political factors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssay topics include various dimensions of the death penalty, including racial and gender bias; economic costs; the conviction of juveniles, the mentally ill, and the factually innocent; Supreme Court decisions; and the failure of the death penalty to serve as a deterrent against crime. This important volume is an up-to-date accounting of the current state and, as the contributors argue, the future demise of the death penalty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Todd C. Peppers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48272787931387,"sku":"9781479819645","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_605f6f77-bb99-4f7b-a1d6-d4db148d4fcb.jpg?v=1780980072","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-slow-death-of-the-death-penalty-9781479819645","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}