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Article: America's experiment with capital punishment: reflections on the past, present, and future of the ultimate penal sanction.(Review)
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- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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AMERICA'S EXPERIMENT WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE ULTIMATE PENAL SANCTION (James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier eds., Carolina Academic Press 1998) 586 pp.
I. INTRODUCTION
These new books focusing on capital punishment issues come at a time when if there is not renewed interest in the death penalty, there is at least some surprise, among advocates, academics, and toilers in the criminal justice system, that we find ourselves where we are at the end of the millennium. Capital punishment is here to stay for the foreseeable future; thirty eight states have reenacted capital statutes.(1) The ...