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Article: The Future of America's Death Penalty: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research
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- Justice System Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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The Future of America's Death Penalty: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research, edited by Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers, and James R. Acker. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2008.
reviewed by Eric N. Waltenburg
Almost three-and-one-half decades after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Gregg v. Georgia (1976) ushered in the "modern era" of capital punishment in the United States, the nation and its leaders remain conflicted concerning the aim, efficacy, and implementation of this ultimate sanction. What can be gained by imposing the death penalty? How is the death penalty framed and perceived? What are the cultural, social, psychological, and fiscal ...