The Death Penalty on the Ballot: American Democracy and the Fate of Capital Punishment

by Austin Sarat

Book Overview

Investigating the attitudes about capital punishment in contemporary America this book poses the question; can ending the death penalty be done democratically? How is it that a liberal democracy like the United States shares the distinction of being a leading proponent of the death penalty with some of the world's most repressive regimes? Reporting on the first study of initiative and referendum processes used to decide the fate of the death penalty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110871157X
• ISBN13: 9781108711579
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 9.0"