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Article: The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture.(Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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THE KILLING STATE: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN LAW, POLITICS, AND CULTURE (Austin Sarat ed., Oxford University Press, 1999) 263 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 number of those executed since 1976 has passed 500.(2) Over 3,000 people, mostly men, who are ...