{"product_id":"the-slow-death-of-the-death-penalty","title":"The Slow Death of the Death Penalty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy the death penalty is in decline across the United States\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty-two states have abandoned state-sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty-eight states that still have the death penalty, eight have not had an execution in over a decade. And public support for the death penalty has declined from 80% of the surveyed population in the early 1990s to approximately 50% today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the death penalty slowly withers away, Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen, and Mary Welek Atwell bring together a number of distinguished death-penalty scholars, activists, and attorneys to take an accounting of the damage inflicted by the machinery of death. Contributors to the book point to a range of different pathologies which have caused politicians and voters to turn against capital punishment, from unacceptable rates of false convictions and racially motivated prosecutions, to a clemency process poisoned by political factors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssay topics include various dimensions of the death penalty, including racial and gender bias; economic costs; the conviction of juveniles, the mentally ill, and the factually innocent; Supreme Court decisions; and the failure of the death penalty to serve as a deterrent against crime. This important volume is an up-to-date accounting of the current state and, as the contributors argue, the future demise of the death penalty.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50020922687738,"sku":"9781479819645","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_e0d40f17-7d61-4999-a902-06c9d9cb77b5.jpg?v=1786137145","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/the-slow-death-of-the-death-penalty","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}