Table of Contents: “…-- Due process -- Abolishing the death penalty -- The ultimate penalty.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Scalia's philosophy -- Interpreting laws -- Separation of powers -- Race -- Abortion -- Death penalty -- Religious freedom -- Gender equality -- Free speech -- Non-speech and un-free speech -- Homosexuality -- Other "rights" -- Epilogue: Scalia's America.…”

Table of Contents: “…Slavery and Neoslavery -- The Evolution from Lynching to the Death Penalty -- From the War on Crime to The War on Drugs : The Creation of Mass Incarceration -- Waging War -- The Opioid Crisis -- Prison Pipelines -- From Subhuman to Superpredator -- Restorative Justice, Reparations, and Repair.…”

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction Cain's Legacy, Nietzsche's Complaint; Chapter 1 "The Horrors of My Dreams"; Chapter 2 Uncertain Providence and Certain Punishment: Hannah More; Chapter 3 "Shuddering o'er the Grave": Wordsworth, Poetry, and the Punishment of Death; Chapter 4 Jane Austen, the Romantic Novel, and the Importance of Being Wrong; Chapter 5 Coleridge, Shelley, and the Poetics of Conscience; Chapter 6 The Two Abolitions; Coda The Culture of the Death Penalty; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The pope's travel plans: three states, three views of the death penalty -- Executions in America: trends and beginnings -- Methods of execution: seeking a "humane" end, from noose to needle -- Wardens and guards, chaplains and doctors -- Prosecutors and governors -- Jurors and judges -- Witnessing -- Murder victim's families -- Public opinion, private doubts -- The end of executions.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Early Modern Prayer; Rowlandson's 'Cover Story': The Revision of Private Devotional Practice into Public Narrative; The Prayer of an Empress and the Death Penalty Moratorium in Eighteenth-Century Russia; The Captive at Prayer: Cross-Cultural Trauma as Revealed in the Diary of Stephen Williams; The Eye of a Needle: Commemorating the 'Godly Merchant' in the Early Modern Funeral Sermon; Mary's Magnificat in Eighteenth-Century Britain and New England…”
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Table of Contents: “…Illustrations -- Foreword / Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Breaking apart -- First reactions -- The antiterrorism and effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 -- The decision to take legal action -- Knock, and the door shall be opened -- Words remembered -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Burma's struggle for democracy and human rights before 1988 -- Locating power in the free Burma movement -- Free Burma laws : legislating transnational sanctions -- Corporate "death penalty" : executing charter revocation -- Alien tort claims : adjudicating human rights abuses abroad.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction to law and popular culture -- The adversary system and the trial genre -- Lawyers as heroes -- Lawyers as villains -- The life of lawyers -- Legal education -- Law on television -- The criminal justice system -- The jury -- Military justice -- The death penalty -- The civil justice system -- Civil rights -- Family law.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The death penalty in the United States and how juries operate -- The importance of defining the defendant -- The legal fight -- The guilt phase: how the defense/prosecution saw their mission -- The penalty phase: the prosecution's/defense's mission -- Who is the defendant? …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to law and popular culture -- The adversary system and the trial genre -- Lawyers as heroes -- Lawyers as villains -- The life of lawyers -- Legal education -- Law on television -- The criminal justice system -- The jury -- Military justice -- The death penalty -- The civil justice system -- Civil rights -- Family law.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to sentencing -- Guilty pleas and plea bargaining -- The sentencing process -- Sentencing statutes and guidelines -- Community-based sanctions -- The death penalty -- Cruel and unusual punishment and noncapital cases -- Parole release and probation and parole revocation -- Collateral sanctions and consequences -- pt. 2. …”

Table of Contents: “…Prosecutorial discretion : power and privilege -- The power to charge -- Let's make a deal : the power of the plea bargain -- Prosecutors and the victims of crime -- Prosecutors and the death penalty -- Federal prosecutors and the power of the attorney general -- Prosecutorial misconduct : the abuse of power and discretion -- Prosecutorial ethics -- Prosecutorial accountability -- Prospects for reform.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Murder, the rule of law and the tale of the little red hen -- "A good murder" -- Not wiser after thirty-five years of contemplating the death penalty -- Anomalies: ritual and language in lethal injection regulations -- The quality of justice in capital cases: Illinois as a case study -- The proportionality review of capital cases by state high courts after Gregg: only "the appearance of justice".…”

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Table of Contents: “…The murder of Eric Michael Nesbitt -- Investigation and prosecution -- Capital punishment from Jamestown to Furman -- Capital punishment reinstated -- Retardation, the death penalty, and Johnny Paul Penry -- The trial -- Sentencing -- Approaching the Supreme Court -- Persuading the justices -- The Supreme Court decides -- On demand -- A final surprise.…”